Like a month ago, I was on a trip and consulted an archive for a potential writing project, and it happened to be held in a hospital.
On the way in when I was turning off the main road, they had a big sign about hiring nursing staff for all shifts, so when I was waiting at reception for the archivist to come and meet me and take me down to the archives, I started chit-chatting with the receptionist, and I asked her about that sign.
And, she said that basically they were trying to wean themselves off of staffing services, which had swallowed up the sector because of COVID emergency money when the federal government flooded everywhere with money so that they could make sure that they were properly staffed.
Basically, as everyone has known for a while now, people left site-based full-time jobs and entered traveling services in order to increase wages, and people just aren't taking wage reductions and dropping back to full-time work based out of one institution. So, it's like a rut that's good for the individuals, but bad for the workplaces and patients, with no clear end in sight.
What gets me is that this trend was clear going back 2-3 years ago, and it's STILL HAPPENING.
It's like everything is stuck in time, and huge problems just aren't getting solved in that sector.
Just a lingering collapse, all tied into the pandemic and afterwards.
Sigh.
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