A recent survey indicates that out-of-work Americans are becoming more willing to relocate to gain employment.
According to statistics released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an international outplacement firm, 18.2 percent of job seekers who found employment during the second quarter relocated to take their new positions. That’s the highest relocation rate since the second quarter of 2006, when an identical portion of job seekers moved to take new positions.
In the second quarter of 2008, 11.4 percent relocated for work and in the first quarter of this year, 14.3 percent did the same.
Challenger said job seekers had been prevented from relocating by the inability to sell their homes and by the fear of an unstable job market in which employment with a new firm might not last very long.
