Nearly two-thirds of long-tenured displaced workers were reemployed in January 2026

From January 2023 through December 2025, 3.3 million workers were displaced from jobs they had held for at least 3 years. This was up by 746,000 workers from the prior survey period covering January 2021 to December 2023. Known as long-tenured displaced workers, 66.1 percent of these individuals were reemployed when surveyed in January 2026, 18.3 percent were unemployed, and 15.7 percent were not in the labor force.

Among long-tenured displaced workers, men and women had similar reemployment rates in January 2026 (68.0 percent and 64.0 percent, respectively), both little different from the prior survey. The proportion of long-tenured displaced men who were unemployed in January 2026 was 15.1 percent and the share of displaced women was 21.7 percent. Both were little changed from 2024. The shares of male and female displaced workers who left the labor force were also little changed from the prior survey, at 17.0 percent and 14.3 percent, respectively.

These data are from the Current Population Survey. For more information, see "Worker Displacement: 2023–2025." Long-tenured displaced workers are wage and salary workers age 20 and over who had 3 or more years of tenure on a job they lost or left because their plant or company closed down or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.