1.8 million left or lost 職業 in COVID year
A year of COVID-19 不確定 has stopped many people from 職業 hopping, while others have given up on finding a 職業 because they can't afford or 接近 child care.
Australian Bureau of 統計（学） data on 職業 mobility 解放（する）d on Wednesday showed 975,000 or 7.5 per cent of 雇うd people changed 職業s, the lowest 年次の 職業 mobility 率 on 記録，記録的な／記録する.
Some 1.8 million people left or lost a 職業 in the year to February 2021.
Almost 140,000 have given up looking for work because they can't get affordable child care, 圧倒的に women.
"This should not be a 障壁 to anyone entering the 全労働人口," 貿易（する） union leader Michele O'Neil said.
"It is 批判的な that the 連邦の 政府 introduce 解放する／自由な 全世界の／万国共通の 早期に childhood education and care."
There were 2.2 million people who were not working but 手配中の，お尋ね者 to work, up from 2.1 million people a year earlier.
職業 hopping remained highest for professionals, with 21 per cent managing to change 職業s during the COVID-19 時代.
"職業 mobility in Australia has been 一般に 傾向ing 負かす／撃墜する for １０年間s and reached a new low during the first year of the pandemic," ABS 長，率いる 労働 statistician Bjorn Jarvis said.
Around 82,000 より小数の people changed 職業s than in the year before.
Mr Jarvis said during the first year of the pandemic, people were more likely to change their 産業 than their 占領／職業.
労働者s were also more likely to change to a 職業 with more hours than to a 職業 with the same hours or より小数の.
It was harder for men to switch 職業s, with mobility 負かす／撃墜する from 8.4 per cent to 7.5 per cent, compared with women at 7.8 per cent, up from 7.6 per cent.
国境s are の近くにd to foreign 労働者s, 主要な to 職業 不足s and more 需要・要求する in some 部門s.
The 占領／職業 group winning the largest 増加する was accommodation and food services, with mobility now 17.1 per cent compared with 14.3 per cent before the pandemic.
職業 mobility also 増加するd for community and personal service 労働者s, and was 安定した for clerical and 行政の staff. Labourers were also more 動きやすい.
But sales 労働者s, and 専門家技術者s and tradies, were いっそう少なく able to 職業 hop.
