WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – The number of job openings in the United States fell slightly in December to a seven month low of 5.81 million, the government said Tuesday. Openings have fallen from a recent record high high in part because companies filled some 1.3 million positions in the second half of 2017. Companies hire 5.49 million people in December while 5.24 million Americans lost their jobs. About 3.3 million people quit their jobs. The percentage of people in the workforce who walked away from their old jobs, known as the quit rate, rose a notch to 2.2%.
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