https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5d39mq/business-is-booming-for-layoff-specialists-never-seen-anything-like-this

Coming into the year, business was slow for the country’s layoff experts, as it had been for much of the past decade. Outside of a short period of tumult in 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. economy had continued to roar along. Jobs were plentiful, layoffs were at a 52-year low, and The Great Resignation had led to worker shortages.

“Everybody was trying to do everything possible to hang on to every employee that they had,” said Dan Davenport,” the CEO of Randstad RiseSmart.