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6 Ways to Stay Motivated and Productive on the Night Shift

Strategy Driven

Some remote workers, security guards, health care professionals and call center agents of companies that offer 24/7 customer support have to work the graveyard shift. Your goal is to replicate nighttime conditions, so that you can sleep soundly and comfortably. A lot of people wince at the idea of working at night.

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How To Develop Employee Handbook

HR Digest

Employee rights and responsibilities (including privacy, health care, social security, leave policy, etc.) . For instance, when creating a human resource handbook, ask yourself how much time, energy, and money you’d like to invest in making your handbook great. What Should Be Included In An Employee Handbook? Dress code .

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

All of this takes energy and drive, for sure, along with a willingness to learn, adapt and engage. While HR can help bring the right tools and frameworks forward to advance business goals, we are most effective when we have strong partnerships with the operating teams and create opportunities to strengthen the support we provide them. .

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the largest health care providers in America, has a clear mission: improve health. This health care leader is showing how an authentic, mission-driven connection to global issues can drive change. KP is not a minor player in a health care industry that accounts for 16% of U.S.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.