{"id":77884,"date":"2022-01-03T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=77884"},"modified":"2022-01-01T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:58:07","slug":"where-did-four-million-u-s-workers-go-and-what-are-they-doing-asks-the-merito-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/where-did-four-million-u-s-workers-go-and-what-are-they-doing-asks-the-merito-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Four Million U.S. Workers Go and What Are They Doing? asks the Merito Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYSONS, Va., Jan. 3, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Great Resignation era of workers are returning to the workforce but not as originally imagined. Carolyn Thompson, CEO of talent acquisition and consulting services company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritogroup.com\/\">Merito Group<\/a> states, \u201cWith new priorities and values, Americans are searching for a new job or a new career, which also means becoming an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0103-s2p-merito-group-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"MERITO GROUP\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0103-s2p-merito-group-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0103-s2p-merito-group-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Employers, especially those in strained industries such as transportation and finance, are fighting to keep current employees and compete to grab candidates within the same industry who may have quit another company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies are shifting their policies to better accommodate hybrid or remote work schedules, as well as bonuses to retain current employees and to hire new ones,\u201d Thompson states.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report from the Census Bureau\u2019s Business Formation Statistics shows that nearly 1.4 million applications have been filed to form new businesses likely to hire employees. Since 2018, new business applications filed per week averaged 67,000, but since June 2021 that number has skyrocketed to 100,000 new business applications per week.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, an entrepreneur herself, says \u201cEntrepreneurship has always been part of the American spirit. But with so much uncertainty in the past few years, these Covid-preneurs want more control over their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Merito Group:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A US-based, certified woman owned company, Merito Group is a talent acquisition consulting firm providing excellence in outsourced solutions. The team of experienced Executive Recruiters has thousands of successful placements under their belt because they take the time to get to know you, your company, division, or department\u2019s needs as well as our candidates\u2019 personal interests and goals through a thorough in-person interview process. Blending corporate needs with candidates\u2019 desires make the right match more attainable for all parties.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritogroup.com\/\">https:\/\/www.meritogroup.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA ONLY CONTACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Uschock<\/p>\n<p>Director of Marketing, Merito Group<\/p>\n<p>RachelUK@MeritoGroup.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYSONS, Va., Jan. 3, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Great Resignation era of workers are returning to the workforce but not as originally imagined. Carolyn Thompson, CEO of talent acquisition and consulting services company Merito Group states, &#8220;With new priorities and values, Americans are searching for a new job or a new career, which also means becoming an entrepreneur.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":77873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,12804,1,227],"tags":[17448,17449],"class_list":["post-77884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-virginia-news","tag-certified-woman-owned-company","tag-executive-recruiters","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3475,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}