Workforce

Hybrid schedules tend to improve how workers feel about their jobs and make them less likely to leave, but research shows employees who work from home full time could face higher rates of anxiety and loneliness, The Wall Street Journal…

Anesthesia plays a crucial role in a patient’s health journey, directly influencing the accessibility and timing of life-saving treatments. However, persistent physician shortages and workforce gaps in rural areas have led to limited procedures, scheduling, and services. When a rural…

Many health systems have added operational technologies over the past several years. Yet for some leaders, it’s not clear these tools have made the work simpler — or that they’ve resolved the organization’s most pressing operational challenges. Instead, operational complexities,…

Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers in the U.S. is a registered nurse, according to May 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. RNs represent about 19% of the nation’s healthcare practitioner and healthcare support workforce, according to BLS…

Kansas City, Mo.-based Children’s Mercy is offering voluntary early retirement to an undisclosed number of employees, The Beacon reported June 12. The pediatric health system employs nearly 9,000 people, according to the report. In a statement shared with Becker’s, Children’s…

Compensation jumped from fifth to first place as the top reason employees stay in 2026, up 24 percentage points year over year, according to a global McKinsey survey. McKinsey’s “HR Monitor 2026,” published in June, surveyed approximately 1,300 HR professionals…

Companies are leaning on “backdoor” references more than ever as candidates use AI tools to polish resumes and prepare for virtual interviews, The Wall Street Journal reported June 10. While backdoor references — inquiries about a candidate made to someone…

Nurses left their primary jobs at nearly double the rate between 2018 and 2022, rising from 13% to 24%, according to a University of Michigan study published in Medical Care.   The study used a difference-in-difference analysis of inpatient, long-term care,…

Among four advanced practice provider positions, only nurse practitioners saw growth in employed workers between 2024 and 2025. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on the number of employed people in each roll by state. The data, released May 13,…

Clinical workforce debates have long centered on a core question: Who should provide care, at what level of independence and with accountability to whom? Physicians and advanced practice providers have spent years negotiating those lines through scope-of-practice legislation, title disputes…