What if I can't give my employees what they want for job satisfaction?

 

Phil:  All right, Jenna, I have one of the questions that came up in our MedBridge career burnout and getting your ideal career webinar.  "Do you have any suggestions if you're on the employer side of the issue, where an employee is saying that there is something that they really want for job satisfaction, which just can't happen?  Practically all of our employees say that they don't want to work weekends, but as a rehab unit, weekend therapy is necessary.  If we allow one employee to work only Monday through Friday, then all the employees would want this, and inpatient rehab doesn't work that way."  Man, that's a great question.

Jenna:  It is a good question because I think it gets to something that we don't want to draw attention to all the time.  But certain things can't happen.  There are certain things, if you're in a rehab unit and you need coverage on the weekend and part of the role is that therapists cover that, then can you...

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Having trouble balancing life? You are not alone

 

I have no idea why I still remember this memory so vividly today. It was over a decade ago, but for some reason it made an imprint...

“I haven’t been here in a while,” she said sheepishly as if embarrassed. I took her membership card and scanned it. “Have a good workout,” I said as she walked into the locker room.

I looked at the login screen, she hadn’t been into the gym for 19 days and before that it had been over a month. I looked at her birthday and quickly did the math. She was 28 years old. I remember thinking to myself, “That will never be me.” I couldn’t understand how someone could be a member and could go an entire month without coming to the gym.

I remember thinking about that moment in undergrad when I’d stay out most of the night and still make it to the gym. I thought about that moment in PT school when I kept my workout routine even on the busiest of weeks.

But, then residency came and I remember skipping...

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