Workforce

Amid staffing challenges, finding and keeping workforce talent is a top risk in healthcare, according to a PwC August Pulse Survey.

Companies are avoiding hard layoffs but still cutting jobs by reassigning employees to different roles — a trend dubbed "quiet cutting," The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 27. 

The national healthcare staffing shortage has inflated wages and increased competition for talented nurses and clinical support staff. For a while, hospitals' main retention strategy was increased wages; that's changing as nurses feel more comfortable with their pay and have…

Nigel Girgrah, MD, PhD, chief wellness officer of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, understands the value of developing wellness programs to promote a healthy and productive workforce. 

Eighty-one percent of the full-time workforce supports a four-day workweek — and most of them would sacrifice something for it, according to an Aug. 23 survey from Bankrate. 

CVS Health said Aug. 1 that it is eliminating 5,000 "non-customer-facing positions" across the company. According to WARN documents filed in August, those layoffs are taking place across at least nine states.

"Lazy girl jobs" is among the phrases related to the workplace that have gained traction in recent years.   

A new law regarding mandatory overtime for registered nurses at hospitals is slated to take effect Oct. 1 in Connecticut.

Workers are heading to Florida and Texas — including the young and wealthy, according to an Aug. 9 analysis. 

In the first seven months of 2023, staff at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health reported 100 incidents of violence, The Republic reported Aug. 20.