What Is the Current U.S. Unemployment Rate?

Thanks for the perspective. While I was able to keep my people busy during the first part of this pandemic (before I retired) I did not get the production I usually did primarily because of two reasons: the difficulty of bringing teams together and review plans at the same time combined with people just slacking off to take the garbage out or whatever they are doing. This was government service. I don’t see how a company will be able to survive having remote working, maybe it might work for some tech companies and such, but not for the meat and potatoes portion of our economy. My view is there is going to be a lot of pain in our Country until people get back to work.

Those who have stopped seeking employment are a big reason the report looks as good as it does. These people are unaccounted for in the above estimates.

MSgt Dale Johnson - Thanks for the clarification. As a nation it's important to know the number of able-bodied workers we have.

SFC (Join to see) Depends on the industry. According to my son, who is a VP in a national IT company, they've pretty much given up on trying to get new hires to move to the company HQ but they have been extremely successful in hiring for remote work. He says they haven't seen a significant decline in productivity but are having significant savings in travel costs. Unfortunately there are a lot of places like the restaurants and large businesses Maj Robert Thornton mentioned where remote jobs simply are not feasible.