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February 10, 2020 | Mark Woodka
Think about the last time you applied for a job. How was that experience? Was the application easy to complete? Were you notified about the status of your submission? Did the recruiter keep you...
February 5, 2020 | Tommy Marzella
A survey recently conducted by OnShift revealed that 62% of providers cite difficulty finding qualified candidates as one of their biggest workforce challenges. And 73% of people say this challenge...
January 28, 2020 | Peter Corless
Similar to what Lisa is doing for our senior living readers, I will be contributing a monthly blog to discuss topics and issues on the skilled nursing side of things. I’ll brief you on key themes I’m...
January 24, 2020 | Lisa Fordyce
Cheers to my first blog post of 2020 and the start of a new decade. This year, I will be writing a monthly column to bring thought and conversation to what's happening within the senior living...
January 22, 2020 | Cari Rosenberger
In fall 2019, in an effort to better understand the priorities and challenges facing our customers and the senior care industry as a whole, OnShift conducted our first ever Workforce 360 Survey.
We...
January 14, 2020 | Jenna Berris
According to research from Gallup, those who have a best friend at work are 7x more likely to be engaged in their job. They also tend to be happier, healthier and more productive. With 40% of...
January 9, 2020 | Jenna Berris
Before we begin cranking out more content to help you solve senior care workforce challenges in 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on our most loved blogs of 2019. It was the year of PDPM,...
January 3, 2020 | Cari Rosenberger
High employee turnover is top of mind for every I/DD and behavioral health provider we work with. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by OnShift, 78 percent of group home and healthcare providers...
December 23, 2019 | Ray Desrochers
This holiday season marks the end of my first year as President and COO of OnShift, and what a year it has been! I’d like to take some time to reflect on the past, but most importantly, offer you...
December 20, 2019 | Jenna Berris
With low unemployment numbers and small hiring pools across the country, long-term care and senior living providers are struggling to attract and retain the workers they need. And being short staffed...
December 13, 2019 | Tommy Marzella
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization declared employee burnout an occupational phenomenon, which doesn't bode well for senior care, an industry that's already struggling to attract and...