Yes. Thats why most analysts give the recession a few quarters, while others look at how long to get back to where we were.
However if you look at the *employment* data the 2010 to 2018 recovery was not so robust, and I would expect that a look at payroll (or income) data would show it to be even worse. The discouraged worker effect was unusually strong (hence unemployment rate fell even while employment rate did not recover quite so well). And the quality of jobs fell, so income did not recover well (more part time, many at lower wages).
It sems to me that the unemployment rate is not so useful as it once was because there are different socioeconomic structures in society. It is a function of two other variables and they are more responsive to other influences than in the past.
As someone running a construction business I can validate all that. I did not see recovery in profitability in contracts and volume until 2013. Six years after the crash. But wait, thats not the whole story. The construction industry was in serious trouble as early as 2003. Between the steel & lumber tariffs taking effect 2001-2002, the large ramp up in materials & insurance prices post Katrina, overbuilding in the residential sector, subsequent stagnation of prices; all were in place 2002-2005. While other sectors were in decent shape we were being hammered.
Logically there should have been a shake out of the construction industry circa 2003-2006. For whatever reasons that did not occur & the same stupid mistakes were compounded several more years. Nation wide, and regional construction companies like CP Morgan or Beezer Homes were dead men walking, kept upright by a inability in all directions to accept reality.
My cousin was VP of a small and conservative midwestern bank in those days. We did not meet often, but 2002 to 2010 we together watched the slow motion freeway pileup. Once or twice a year discussing the unfolding insanity over coffee at our business meetings. A retired economics professor & old friend added his perspective "Carl, the trouble with accountants is they think their numbers have something to do with reality." At the time I wondered where the obviously due recession was in 2005. The construction industry was 'Flame Out' but the financal industry attitude was all rainbows and unicorns. I'm convinced that had the necessary shakeout come in 2003-4 most of the long term damage of 2008 would have been avoided.