"The Impact of Workplace Stress on Healthcare Professionals: Insights from the State of Work in America Survey"

The constant influx of new patients would seem to be a strong factor in making working in the healthcare sector a fairly stable industry in which to work. Healthcare workers certainly have more of an immunity to economic shocks than the general population, However, there are plenty of stressors and factors that make working in that space challenging and difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most important recent job stressors, while finally ceasing to dominate the industry’s concerns, hasn’t altered that fact. Learning what those stressors are, along with learning what factors keep healthcare employees at their jobs, can be a way that healthcare companies attract and retain talent that better puts their organizations in a competitive advantage.

This spring, Grant Thornton LLP conducted a State of Work in America survey where we 5,000 U.S. employees on a wide range of aspects of their job to find

answers.

While they found that healthcare employees attitudes aligned with those of U.S. workers overall, healthcare workers concerns, motivators and stressors were different in key ways. Among their many findings, what stood out among our State of Work survey results for healthcare included:

• Healthcare workers’ overall well-being is viewed significantly less favorably than workers overall. More employees say their mental, financial and physical well-being has become worse in the past year than better.

• Base pay is the top motivator keeping employees at their company, compared to U.S. employees overall who rank benefits as their top reason to stay. Related to that, significantly fewer healthcare workers feel their pay is linked to their performance compared to all employees.

• Healthcare workers repeatedly indicate they are not feeling valued at their organization. It’s the top reason they would leave their job, and job environment qualities such as “My company understands my needs” and “The organization cares about me” are all rated significantly lower by healthcare workers than workers overall.

• Employee shortages is ranked highly as a stress factor for all U.S. employees, but they dominate responses from healthcare workers as a factor causing stress at work.

• Employees are significantly less likely to feel valued at work and consistently rank positive statements about work less highly than workers overall
  

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