Job mobility in Australia rose to the highest level in a decade, with almost one in ten employed people switching jobs in the 12 months to February, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said job mobility had been trending downwards for decades before reaching a record low of 7.5 percent during the first year of the pandemic.
“As the labour market has progressively recovered, we have seen an increase in job mobility, with 1.3 million people changing jobs during the second year of the pandemic,” he said, noting that some of the movement in 2021 would have been due to delayed or deferred changes from 2020….