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March 6, 2020 | Jenna Berris
A recent OnShift workforce survey found that employee turnover is the top concern for providers, closely followed by finding qualified candidates to fill open roles. The majority of respondents also...
March 3, 2020 | Jim Rubadue
Bringing new technology into a senior care community can be a daunting task. And it brings a number of questions to the surface, such as: Will this be easy to use for employees across all levels and...
February 27, 2020 | Peter Corless
We talk a lot about the direct-care workforce. We know they are critical to resident care, yet extremely difficult to attract and retain. We also know that we need to recruit 1.3 million more of them...
February 21, 2020 | Jenna Berris
Recent research revealed that finding qualified candidates is a top challenge for long-term care and senior living providers. And 73% believe this challenge will remain the same or get worse over the...
February 14, 2020 | Lisa Fordyce
It’s Valentine’s Day – a day dedicated to spreading the love. It's a time to tell all the people in our lives, not just our significant others, how much we cherish and appreciate them. I know we're...
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 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,...
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...
