by dankeelan | Jun 14, 2022 | Featured, Healthcare, Hybrid Workplace, Mental Health, Remote Work
There has been a massive shift in the way work is done over the last two years. Millions across the world have embraced the remote work system, choosing to forgo the traditional office space and instead work from home. The remote work revolution has been impressive...
by dankeelan | Mar 29, 2022 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
A mysterious proposed ballot initiative that aimed to let companies treat nurses and other healthcare workers as gig workers was withdrawn less than three weeks after it was submitted. The initiative was filed with the California Attorney General’s office on Jan. 24,...
by dankeelan | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Healthcare
While the early months of the pandemic saw an emphasis placed on the contributions made by previously under-appreciated workers, from grocery store staff to nurses, refuge collectors to delivery drivers. There is a sense that such enthusiasm has waned as the pandemic...
by dankeelan | Feb 1, 2022 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
Healthcare, the nation’s fastest-growing industry, could be next in the push for laws to expand gig work. A measure filed this week with the California attorney general’s office seeks to ask the state’s voters in November to classify nurses, dental hygienists,...
by dankeelan | Nov 2, 2021 | Healthcare, Mental Health, U.S. Economy
The extent of our collective bereavement in the United States today is staggering. With more than 740,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, the country is grappling with an onslaught of grief. Some 72 percent of Americans say they know someone who has been hospitalized or...
by dankeelan | Sep 14, 2021 | Benefits, Healthcare, U.S. Economy
I never thought much about health insurance until I was T-boned at 50 mph. The wreck totaled my car. It deployed all of the airbags, burst all of the windows on the left side, and displaced the entire engine from the nose of my Honda CR-V. If the driver of the other...
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