A record 4.4 million people quit U.S.-based jobs in September, breaking the previous record set just a month earlier when 4.3 million quit in what has been dubbed The Great Resignation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is set to release numbers for October on Wednesday.
That record-breaking September saw 279,000 Floridians quit, at a rate slightly higher than the U.S. average. Some had another job lined up. Some did not. Some said they were pushed by working conditions created by the pandemic and were buoyed by federal stimulus money and other relief.
The Times spoke with six Tampa Bay residents to learn how they quit.
