After the trauma and burnout caused by the covid-19 pandemic, the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare developed an initiative for health care leaders improve employee health, patient care. read more >
Several of the plaintiffs are the spouses or children of Tyson workers who died after contracting COVID. read more >
The news wasn't received well by investors. Shares of the company plummeted 30% Wednesday morning. read more >
One year after it began being enforced nationwide on Feb. 20, 2022, the vaccination requirement affecting an estimated 10 million health care workers is the last remaining major mandate from President Joe Biden's sweeping attempt to boost national vaccination rates. read more >
An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University's Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. read more >
Experts aren't sure at this point if the dramatic pull of the South is a short-term change spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic or a long-term trend, or even what impact it will have on the reallocation of political power through redistricting after the 2030 census. read more >
Major drugstore chains have raised pay and dangled signing bonuses to add employees. They're also emphasizing the lunch breaks and sending routine prescription work to other locations to improve conditions in their pandemic-battered pharmacies. read more >
More than two and a half years into the pandemic in a world yearning for normalcy, many workers are fed up and don't want to go back to the way things were. read more >
More than 70% of Arkansans who died from COVID-19 since February 2021 were not fully vaccinated. read more >
This fall and winter have upended life for working parents of little children, who thought the worst of the pandemic was behind them. read more >
After more than two years of working in pajama bottoms and clinking glasses over Zoom, many office workers seem to be yearning for a bit of glamour. read more >
The leading cause of the worker shortfall, according to research by the Fed, is a surge in retirements. read more >
There's a disconnect between customers who want to shop and dine like they used to during pre-pandemic times and exhausted employees who no longer want to work those long hours — a push-pull that is only being heightened during the busy holiday shopping season. read more >
The flight from the profession wasn't a case of older nurses retiring. The bulk of nurses leaving were under age 35, and more are headed for the exit. read more >
Construction company executives say demand for projects has remained robust, and they have learned to cope with now-predictable complications like higher materials costs and labor shortages. read more >
Financial technology firms used questionable procedures and business practices that resulted in "the needless loss of taxpayer dollars." read more >
Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, were extradited from the Balkan country of Montenegro, where they were living in a luxury seaside villa before their arrest in February. read more >
Travel experts say the pandemic and the ability of many people to work remotely has blurred the lines between business and leisure trips. They think many people will start holiday trips early or return home later than normal because they will spend a few days working remotely — or at least tell the boss they're working remotely. read more >
Among fourth graders, 36% were proficient in math compared with 41% in 2019. In Arkansas, the results were even worse. read more >
Educators see a need to keep students on task to recover from pandemic shutdowns, when many students lost the equivalent of months of learning. read more >
