Job mobility in Australia during the 12 months ended February of this year was at its highest level since February 2012, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday. It found 9.5% of employed people changed their employer or business during that time period.

Australia’s job mobility rate had been trending down for decades and reached a record low of 7.5% during the first year of the pandemic, said Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS.

“As the labour market has progressively recovered, we have seen an increase in job mobility, with 1.3 million people changing jobs during the second year of the pandemic,” Jarvis said. “This was around 300,000 more people than the year before (970,000 in the year ending February 2021), and around 220,000 more than the year before the pandemic (1.1 million in the year ending February 2020).”

He noted some of the increase in job mobility during the second year of the pandemic was delayed or deferred job mobility from the first year.