An empty lobby at Safeco Plaza in downtown Seattle this past summer. Many people are quitting their jobs, for reasons including health concerns, long-growing unhappiness with a job brought into focus by the pandemic, and the prospect of ending remote work. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
An empty lobby at Safeco Plaza in downtown Seattle. Many workers are quitting for reasons including health concerns, long-growing unhappiness with a job brought into focus by the pandemic, and the prospect of ending remote work. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
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People are voluntarily leaving their jobs in record numbers. The reasons are many and no one knows how long it will last, writes economy columnist Jon Talton.

Nurse Andrew Litchfield checks a COVID-19 patient’s blood sugar levels in the ICU at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. EvergreenHealth became the first health care facility to report a COVID outbreak in the U.S. Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.
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Rear Adm. Christopher Sweeney is shown after addressing approximately 2,500 sailors assigned to the USS Nimitz on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Earlier in the day he presented a segment of the USS Arizona, a ship bombed in Pearl Harbor almost 80 years ago, to Capt. Craig Sicola in the Captain’s Cabin.
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Velma Veloria, left, and Rosario-Maria Medina pose at Ruby Chow Park in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood earlier this month. The activists are pursuing the construction of green walls to help mitigate noise and pollution from Boeing Field aircraft. (Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest via The Associated Press)
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Sarah and Keith James take a walk with their two boys Elias, center, 3, and Lincoln, 1, in their neighborhood in Yakima, Wash. Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Keith and Sarah were the first couple in UW Medicine’s transplant program where Sarah gave a lobe of liver to her husband Keith, who had been ill for years making a transplant critical.

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Specialist Meric Greenbaum works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. Stocks are closing sharply lower on Wall Street Friday, after a coronavirus variant from South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern Africa. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NYR506 NYR506

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San Francisco Giants’ Kevin Gausman pitches against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of Game 2 of a baseball National League Division Series Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

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R. Hamilton Wright shows how the hydraulic lifts work to enter the stage of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at ACT Theatre in Seattle Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Wright and Amy Thone will share the roles of Scrooge and Marley. 218580

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Seattle’s Vince Dunn upends Carolina’s Jesper Fast in front of the Kraken net in the 2nd period. . The Carolina Hurricanes played The Seattle Kraken in NHL Hockey Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 at Climate Pledge Arena, in Seattle, WA. 218862 218862
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