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In March 2022, 4.5 million workers quit their jobs and there were over 11 million open jobs. Considering the unemployment rate, it also means that about 4.5 million workers started a new job. A little digging into the data shows that the driver of the “churn” in the labor market was from professional and business services and construction. Churn is a somewhat visceral term that, for me, brings an image of turbulence and disruptiveness. It is hard to manage effectively or efficiently if a business is battered by all that noise. As a project manager, coach, and small business owner I like predictability and calm. At the same time, I can appreciate the idea that there is opportunity in chaos. If you are thinking about what that churn means for you personally, you may want to ask yourself:

 

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Fact sheets break down funding and projects by state, eight months after the IIJA became law.

The construction industry had 71,000 fewer job openings in June, providing more evidence that a once-scorching employment market is starting to cool.

Two consecutive quarters of economic contraction is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.

By those standards, the U.S. is officially in one.

But despite the gloomy numbers, Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu said during a recent webinar the U.S. economy is not currently in a recession and predicts the rest of 2022 will be a year of growth. He did add “2023 is fraught with risk.”