The Great Resignation: Fix It … Or Feature It?

Among the many problems that folks speculated about as the pandemic got its grip on the economy, surely the notion that a rush of people would be quitting their jobs was not one of them.  Losing their jobs, sure.  But quitting them?  And yet, here we are, amid the so-called "Great Resignation," with unheard of numbers of people voluntarily leaving their employment.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Great Resignation is a bad thing; something that needs fixing.  At a time when – and this is a first for our economy – there are more job openings than there are people looking for jobs, we don't need even more jobs opening up.  What we need is more folks entering the workforce and filling the job openings that are already out there.