NORFOLK — What happens when too many teachers, construction workers and healthcare managers live in the same city?
That city loses employees, according to LinkedIn.
An excess of residents trained in education, construction and healthcare management has landed Norfolk on a list of the top three American cities losing the most employees in 2017.
The list comes via the LinkedIn Workforce Report, a monthly analysis of American employment trends formed using data collected by the business networking website.
The report shows Norfolk sandwiched between Hartford, Conn. and Providence, R.I. — three cities that experts at LinkedIn believe have consistently lost the most employees to other American cities in 2017.
With a population of more than 245,000, Norfolk’s top five employers are the U.S. Department of Defense, Sentara Healthcare, the Norfolk City School Board, the city government and Old Dominion University, according to Virginia’s labor market information website.
Still, the report states that Norfolk has too many educators, construction workers and healthcare managers — careers that are in higher demand in places like Austin, Denver, Boston, Houston and Washington, D.C.
For every 10,000 LinkedIn users who reported working in Norfolk, nearly 45 switched their job location to a new market this year, the report states.
Some are traveling more than 200 miles away from the Mermaid City to Washington, D.C. For every 10,000 LinkedIn profiles that once belonged to a Norfolk employee, nearly 3 began working in the nation’s capital this year, according to the report.
Washington, D.C. and Norfolk have also been exchanging employees, the report indicated. For every 10,000 profiles that were linked to jobs in the capital, more than 12 of them moved to or from Norfolk in 2017.
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