{"id":730728,"date":"2026-06-11T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:07:09","slug":"canadas-job-market-sees-sharp-decline-in-quick-quitting-as-new-hires-opt-to-stick-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730728\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s job market sees sharp decline in \u2018quick quitting\u2019 as new hires opt to stick around"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pedestrians walk in Toronto’s Financial District. Compared to several years ago, fewer workers are leaving their jobs during their first 12 months of employment, an Indeed Canada report found.Fred Lum\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

Canadian workers are quitting jobs less frequently today than they did in the years before the pandemic, suggesting there is pessimism among workers about the ability to find new work in a sluggish economy.<\/p>\n

A smaller proportion of workers are leaving their jobs within one year of being hired, or what job-search site Indeed Canada refers to as a decline in \u201cquick quitting\u201d in a new report, based on data from Statistics Canada. The drop is seen across most age groups and industries.<\/p>\n

The numbers focus on those leaving their jobs for non-employment, rather than those switching employers. But job switching has also followed a similar trend: Data show that over the year through April, 2026, the share of employees changing employers in a given month was down 41 per cent compared to 2017 to 2019 averages. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe shift really kicks in in 2023 as the overall labour market starts to cool,\u201d said Brendon Bernard, senior economist at Indeed Canada and author of the report. \u201cOne theory is that this is just part of a cyclical downturn in the job market, particularly the hiring market. It could also be a sign of a more pessimistic sentiment amongst job seekers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, the Bank of Canada characterized the Canadian job market as a \u201clow hire, low fire\u201d environment, saying that since late 2022, the labour market has been less dynamic than it used to be, with unemployed workers finding it much harder to get a job. Canada\u2019s unemployment rate gradually rose from 5 per cent at the end of 2022 to a peak of 7.1 per cent last fall, and has hovered between 6.5 per cent and 7 percent since. <\/p>\n

Bank of Canada warns of \u2018low-hire, low-fire\u2019 job market that complicates rate decisions<\/a><\/p>\n

The Indeed report pointed toward a specific trend that has seemed to emerge: new hires are quitting their jobs less often than longer-tenured workers. They are also changing jobs less frequently than those who have been in the workforce for longer. <\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially we found that the drop in quick quitting is very much skewed towards new hires, meaning that new hires tend to want to stay in the jobs they have found,\u201d Mr. Bernard said. <\/p>\n

For example, among those aged between 15 to 24 who had been working at a job for a year or less, the quick quitting rate was 37 per cent lower in the last 12 months than it was between 2017 and 2019. For those working at a job for more than a year in that same age group and same time period, the quitting rate declined by 19 per cent.<\/p>\n

For those aged 25 and up, including people over the age of 55, the quick quitting rate has also decreased, though not as drastically. <\/p>\n

The report showed that over the two years through April, 2026, declines in quick quitting were largest in industries where it was previously more common, including manufacturing, accommodation and food services, and information, culture and recreation. <\/p>\n

Mr. Bernard noted that the reason people choose to quit their jobs or stay is also driven by job satisfaction. \u201cThis is speculative, but perhaps job seekers have more information now than they used to about what kinds of jobs are out there, so they find jobs that they prefer, and hence don\u2019t have to leave quickly,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

From an employer\u2019s point of view, Mr. Bernard said the drop in quick quitting is a relief. \u201cFewer new hires leaving means less time and money spent on recruiting and onboarding their replacements. For job seekers, the impacts are more ambiguous.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Pedestrians walk in Toronto’s Financial District. Compared to several years ago, fewer workers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-730728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}