Category: Workforce

Strong hires are the special ingredient in Fortune’s most admired companies, according to Korn Ferry. 

Amid today’s staff shortages and other workforce challenges, it is more crucial than ever that hospitals and health systems have a leg up when it comes to recruiting and retaining nurses. And multiple organizations are increasingly examining options th…

Hospitals and health systems that embrace scheduling, work roles and overall employment expectations with greater flexibility and agility have a leg up when it comes to retaining nurses age 55 and older, a new focus group study suggests. 

The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association has adopted a united code of conduct to protect workers and patients from escalating violence in the state’s healthcare facilities. 

Upcoming and recent graduates are 85 percent less likely to apply for a job if the salary range is not posted, according to a recent survey from Adobe. 

“The labor market sounds a lot like the Woody Allen joke,” Bloomberg columnist and economist Allison Schrager, PhD, wrote in a Jan. 25 opinion piece. “The food is terrible and there is so little of it.”

Eleven of the 20 hospitals with the highest contract labor expenditures are located in California, accounting for the top 30 percent. 

IAM Healthcare — a division of the 600,000-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers — has called upon Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health System to halt their proposed merger. 
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The highest-earning group of men is spending more time off the clock, according to a study reported by The Wall Street Journal on Jan. 26.

Hours before St. Margaret’s Health-Peru (Ill.) is scheduled to temporarily close, the hospital issued an apology to employees and the community for the way the news was delivered.