This comes on the heels of a then-record 4.3 million quits in August:

The “experts” and officials are saying this is due to the fact that workers now have better options amid the record number of job openings.
Certainly it has nothing to do with the vaccine mandates, no siree.
If workers are only quitting due to better job options elsewhere, then why are job openings still at record-highs? We can see that on the bottom chart.
8.7 million Americans have quit their jobs over the past 2 months, and while many of them certainly did so to take better jobs, we don’t know what that number is.