The U.S. labor landscape improved as it gained jobs and unemployment remained unchanged. The healthcare sector in particular added thousands of new roles, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics April 2022 report. 

Organizations should prepare themselves for a continuation of quits as a new culture of quitting becomes the norm as the annual quit rate stands to jump up nearly 20 percent from annual pre pandemic levels, according to Gartner. 

Children's Hospital Colorado is offering tuition-free learning benefits to employees via a partnership with Guild, an education platform.

Foreign-educated registered nurses welcomed to the U.S. in the first quarter of 2022 are beginning their employment in 31 states, according to a May 5 news release from healthcare staffing firm Health Carousel.

As the war for talent and the Great Resignation continues, employers are too focused on outsourcing and recruiting talent instead of developing the workers they already have, according to a May 3 Harvard Business School article. 

Healthcare leaders should focus on six main priority areas that could provide immediate relief to nursing workforce challenges in the next 12-18 months, the Nurses Staffing Think Tank said May 5.

Salary increases and adequate support staff would persuade nurses planning to leave the profession in two years or less to keep working, according to a survey of Massachusetts nurses released May 5.

Hospitals and health systems have worked to boost employee morale throughout the pandemic. Those efforts are just as important as workers enter a third year of burnout and frayed mental health fueled by COVID-19.

As hospitals battle workforce shortages, part of their struggles come from workers leaving their jobs at hospitals for various reasons. Some have left because of emotional exhaustion while others have retired early. 

A biologist accused of sexually harassing a former colleague is no longer being considered for a faculty position at New York City-based NYU Grossman School of Medicine, according to The New York Times.

Several hospitals are trimming their workforces due to financial and operational challenges, and some are offering affected workers new positions.

Generation Z workers are pushing back on the idea that they're entitled, and instead are arguing that they are just more vocal about how they want their work to fit into their lives, Fortune reported May 2. 

Employee engagement has seen a drop since 2021, suggesting that employees are feeling increasingly fed-up at work, according to an April 25 Gallup poll.

Recent studies suggest brainstorming sessions conducted via videoconference may yield less creative ideas than in-person meetings.

A proposal that would define the workweek in the state of California as 32 hours for larger companies, failed to advance in the state legislature, The Wall Street Journal reported May 2.

Across industries, 4.54 million Americans quit or changed jobs in March, the highest level since December 2000, according to seasonally adjusted data released May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The latest group of workers to quit their jobs are older, tenured employees with decades of experience under their belts, reported Vox April 30. With this trend, organizations may feel the loss of their most knowledgeable employees extra hard.

The U.S. labor market will fully recapture all jobs lost during the pandemic by the end of August, Fitch Ratings forecasts. 

An employee has taken their own life at the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara (Calif.) Medical Center, the hospital's physician-in-chief confirmed. 

Although compensation increases have played a key role in retaining and recruiting healthcare employees amid a major workforce shortage, perks such as mental health services and education financial assistance have also helped meet staff needs.