Despite the best efforts of the extraordinary American health care workforce, the care system is riddled with problems in quality that no other industry would think of tolerating: safety hazards, wild variations in practice, abusive waiting times, inequities, and failures to respect individual patients' and families' values.
Microsoft, the gleaming testament to the hi-tech products of our future, has an extraordinary one-third of its workforce working as temps.
Over the same four weeks, an extraordinary 652,000 people left the workforce, swelling the ranks of the discouraged.
Heartland Robotics is combining the power of computers – embodied in robots – and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to increase productivity and revitalize manufacturing.
"To have a company of Bridgewater's stature make the business decision to invest $750 million in our state and significantly increase its workforce is not only an extraordinary economic 'win,' but signals to the rest of the world that Connecticut is strengthening its leadership position in the very competitive financial services sector".
Considering the challenges facing implementation of most activities in DRC – including insecurity in the eastern parts of the country, as well as a devastated infrastructure and a lack of a skilled workforce – malaria prevention programmes have made extraordinary progress over the past few years.
Proper workforce planning is the only way of meeting the extraordinary demands faced by care services in the coming years".
Instead, the extraordinary rise in employment is fuelled by women returning to the workforce into low-paid jobs, men doing much the same and around 40% taking up self-employment.
"I felt it was worth the risk to stand up for all the women in the workforce that are voiceless ― ordinary women like myself with extraordinary challenges, working in the workforce, that are dominated by men," she said.
The Macy's Social Responsibility report (which you can read about here and download here) details the extraordinary measures Macy's is taking to create a more equitable, safe and environmentally sustainable workforce environment and product supply chain.
