Healthcare organizations have faced numerous challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages. A survey from Mental Health America showed that many healthcare workers are feeling stressed and overworked. 93% of healthcare workers surveyed said they were experiencing stress, 86% reported experiencing anxiety, 77% reported frustration, 76% reported exhaustion and burnout, and 75% said they were overwhelmed.

The Burnout Epidemic

It appears we have another epidemic on our hands and it’s called burnout. It is growing increasingly apparent that the workforce is becoming more and more fatigued, exhausted, and stressed. Just two years ago, the World Health Organization categorized burnout as an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress. Unfortunately, since then, the problem has only gotten worse. Workers are finding it harder and harder to find a balance between their work life and family life.

People who enjoy sales as a career like that there is some control of their schedule and their compensation. Typically good salespeople do not like to be micromanaged, and they shouldn’t be. However, the pandemic brought on so many challenges for outside salespeople, and companies continue to have restrictions that affect the way salespeople schedule their time.

Understanding and Supporting the Nursing Workforce

There is no question that the nursing healthcare workforce bears the brunt of the COVID-19 global outbreak. Nurses are the frontline warriors in the raging COVID battle and sustain the lion’s share of the emotional and physical trauma of caring for sick and dying patients.

People use to work for the company that offered them the biggest paycheck, but now there is much more that goes into creating the best working environment for employees. Employee recognition is a key component to creating a workplace that can recruit and retain the best people. In fact, 59 percent of employees prefer companies with a rich recognition culture to jobs with higher salaries that don’t give any recognition.

It’s hard to believe that there are less than 5 months remaining in 2021. Since we are more than halfway through the year, we wanted to share our top blog posts (by the number of page views) that were published in January through July 2021.

Moving Past the Recovery Phase

By now, most of us have climbed out of the rescue phase of the COVID pandemic. Now we have to focus on moving beyond the recovery phase and resetting our course toward a successful sales rebound in 2021. With the aid of the vaccines and the financial help from the government, most businesses are seeing their way to return to vigorous sales activity as a distinct possibility, but how about our sales teams? Are they ready to charge forward?

A few of our healthcare clients have asked us for some suggestions on how best to recognize their remote and hybrid workers. So we have compiled a list of some ideas that we think will make the most impact for your workers that have worked in some remote capacity and continue to do so.

In part one of this blog post series, we discussed how you can show your support and recognize employees for going above and beyond during a global pandemic. Click here to read the full blog post. In this week’s post, we have included additional ideas for acknowledging and celebrating the sacrifices and adjustments your employees made for the greater good of the company.

How Can You Show Your Appreciation?

It’s been a long fifteen months. Your employees have gone above and beyond to keep your company afloat. They have been extraordinarily flexible and independent, and in many cases, accepted reduced hours or salaries to minimize costs. So how can you acknowledge and celebrate the sacrifices and adjustments they have made for the greater good of the company?