WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings fell in January, but remained near record highs as worker shortages persist, a report showed on Wednesday.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, dropped 185,000 to 11.263 million on the last day of January, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report. Data for December was revised higher to show a record 11.448 million job openings instead of the previously reported 10.925 million.
Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci
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