CEO Alexi Nazem said the company was “too optimistic” about the trajectory of the travel staffing market, which is coming down from pandemic-fueled highs.
To get the same amount of support from their staff than men, women have to be extra nice and help with their staff’s tasks, or risk not being able to perform their job. This could contribute to women’s 30% higher burnout rates.
The move comes after the startup, which raised $15 million in November, fired 12 therapists, changed the way the rest were paid and introduced new software to track patient progress.
Since the start of the pandemic, the popular medical device has been indispensable for measuring oxygen in the blood, but dangerously inaccurate in patients with darker skin. Now the FDA is in the hot seat and Black researchers are working on a cure.