Human Activities: News and Research on Personnel Staffing and Scheduling

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Health

Better planning can reduce sickness absence among shift workers

Jarno Turunen, senior specialist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and M.Sc. (Econ), has investigated the effects of shift work characteristics on the sickness absence of shift workers in his doctoral dissertation ...

Medical economics

Nurses cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR)—published in JAMA Network Open—showed that, aside from retirements, poor working conditions are ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study finds high rates of burnout across health care professions

Burnout is associated with adverse outcomes including medical errors and lower quality of care. While many studies have focused on physician or nurse burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic increased stress across the health care ...