The Great Resignation led to 4.3 million Americans quit jobs in August. This trend is here to stay.

A large number of employees are resigning and moving to jobs that allow them to work remotely or at more flexible hours.

What’s clear, though, is that most resignations aren’t chiefly motivated by a signing bonus or playing catch-up after putting off job searches during the depths of COVID, says Julia Pollak, chief economist of ZipRecruiter, the online jobs marketplace.

In the past, competing restaurants, shops or accounting firms in a neighborhood or city looked roughly similar in terms of pay and work conditions, Pollak says.

"The tight labor market could enable workers to maintain a stronger bargaining position vis-a-vis employers for longer than the pandemic recovery," Koropeckyj says.

Seventeen percent of workers said they quit because of low pay or a lack of benefits at a previous job, according to another Joblist survey. .

Fifty-four percent of workers surveyed by ZipRecruiter in September said they preferred a job that let them work from home.

Only about 10% of jobs offer that option, though that’s up from 3% before the pandemic, Pollak says.

That could eventually prod more companies to allow remote work, Pollak says.

Nineteen percent of workers said they’re unhappy with how employers treated them during the pandemic.

Twenty percent of workers surveyed by Joblist quit jobs to pursue new career paths, and their passions.

About 25% of hospitality workers surveyed by Joblist said they wouldn’t want to work in the industry again.

Thirteen percent of workers quit because their jobs didn’t provide work-life balance, the Joblist poll reveals