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Healthcare is on a Data-Driven Improvement Journey. But Who Will Lead the Change?
UKG’s Chief Nurse Executive shares the benefits of coaching, connection, and collaboration to enrich your employees’ careers and unleash the power of healthcare data.
Workforce Management
How to Overcome 4 Communication Challenges With Your Manufacturing Workforce
It’s nearly 1.5 times more challenging now than it was in 2018 for manufacturers to find qualified talent with the right skills. Learn strategies to communicate effectively with your workforce.
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Behind the Chaos: A Closer Look at Cause, Impact, and a Possible Cure for the Supply Chain Crisis
UKG breaks down the complex network of supply chain challenges impacting manufacturers, 3PLs, and retailers around the world.
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How to Use Technology to Deliver Creative Solutions for Hiring and Retention
Business leaders from the retail, hospitality, and food service industries share how technology has helped them attract and retain top workers.
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How to Prioritize Both Nursing Productivity and Patient Care
Instead of looking at nursing productivity and patient care as mutually exclusive, it’s important to recognize that productivity can actually improve patient care.
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Customer Service in Higher Education
Campus services such as health clinics, financial aid, and academic advisors all have an impact on how a student perceives the customer value of a university. By leveraging tools that create efficiencies around offering these services, institutions can enhance the overall customer service experience that they are providing.
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Reflections From MODEX: 3 Key Learnings on Industry Challenges
The disruption of supply chains has sent shock waves through almost every industry it touches. During the 2022 MODEX Expo, three people-related challenges brought to light from the MHI Annual Industry Report stood out for logistics industry leaders to focus on during these unpredictable times.
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Wake-Up Call: It’s Time To Get Creative and Solve the Nursing Shortage
Just in time for Nurses Month, a new survey details how to better utilize and support nursing staff 365 days a year.
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The Loss of Attraction: Why Employees Disengage
The Great Resignation has put employees back in the driver’s seat. Learn about the three trends driving innovative benefits and perks in the workforce.
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Supply Chain Issues — the New Grinch that Stole Christmas
The 2021 holiday season may have come and gone, but the headache of supply chain issues remain. The impact that this past holiday season left on the industry was significant, ultimately resulting in widespread product shortages and delayed deliveries. Learn how you can support your industry and employees right now, so you are prepared for the next holiday season.
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Rethinking Nursing Productivity: A CALL TO ACTION
The work of the nurse has been displayed and shared transparently for all to see over these past two years. However, how we measure the impact of nursing MUST be reconsidered. To answer this call, we conducted a thorough research study to evaluate nursing productivity and have identified multiple themes and areas for future consideration. Within this blog, we review the highlights of our study.
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How UKG Can Help You Achieve Your Non-Profit Mission
The holidays are always an especially busy time for non-profits helping those in need. As you reflect back on this past holiday season, discover how the right technology can help deliver on your goals and mission next year.
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The best way to manage holiday time off? Know your people
It's hard for HR to balance all the competing holiday time off requests - here's how to keep people at the center of it all.
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Integrated Versus Interfaced WFM Technology: Top 3 Reasons Why Integrated Systems Deliver Better Results
Technology provides necessary data and information to meld labor supply to care demands, which has become a priority in today’s healthcare landscape. An integrated technology solution provides opportunity to achieve optimal labor metric evaluation and action with minimal administrative touchpoints because real-time information is available. In this blog, we will discuss the top 3 benefits an integrated system delivers.
Workforce Management
Building a Financially Sustainable Future: Lessons Learned From the CAFO of Springfield, Massachusetts
Learn how a city overcame tremendous fiscal challenges through a digital transformation and put themselves on the map for strong financial management.
Workforce Management
Where Are All Our Substitutes?
We need substitutes to keep our schools running – and we need continuity in the classroom to ensure consistent learning continues. However, many school districts nationwide are facing shortages of substitute teachers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Going Global: Taking Your Workforce Management Strategy to the Next Level
Expanding your business into other countries can be challenging. Here are 5 factors to consider when planning, or managing a global workforce strategy.
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5 Tips for Building a Vaccine Management Program at Work
Fine-tuning your vaccine management program? Here are five key tips (plus resources) to keep in mind from chief nurse executive, Nanne M. Finis, RN, MS.
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Returning to the Office (Or Not): How to Manage Your Workforce Through the Transition
Day by day, do you know where your employees are working? UKG has solutions to manage your workforce – wherever they may be.
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Time is changing: How to responsibly support employees with technology
Time technology has come a long way - see how you can responsibly support your people with the new options uncovered over the past year.
