Workforce

Increasingly, organizations are being ghosted by new hires as the freshly recruited employees never show up for work, reported The Wall Street Journal May 5. 

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.