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Interview: Short Staffing and Work Intensification

Mike Prokosch discusses his article on short staffing, when employers intentionally hire too few workers as a menthod of work intensification.

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Nurses from Providence Hospital with National Nurses United (NNU) on strike in Providence, R.I., November 12, 2014. Credit: UFCW Local 400, CC BY 2.0 license. — Nurses from Providence Hospital with National Nurses United (NNU) on strike in Providence, R.I., November 12, 2014. Short staffing in health care was a concern well before the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: UFCW Local 400, CC BY 2.0 license.

Click here to listen to our “D&S Debrief” interview with Mike Prokosch on short Staffing.

Click here to read Mike Prokosch’s article from our May/June issue, “Short Staffing.”

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