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The Optimal HR to Employee Ratio

AIHR

Let’s start by exploring what the HR to employee ratio (also known as HR to staff ratio or HR staffing ratio ) is. Say a fast-growing scale-up company has 2045 employees (1860 FTE). A third factor is budget (duh) and staffing budget control. As noted before, the HR staffing ratio in smaller organizations is often lower.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Yet whether economies of scale truly exist in hospital operations remains questionable. Clinical staffing and variation. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business Review

To achieve that, we have implemented a model of daily huddles on an extensive scale. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive. We have pinpointed opportunities for improving staffing procedures and reducing interruption of services.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

In fast-growing organizations, HR is designed and staffed to deliver the “services” that are most visible to the leadership team; that usually means large-scale recruiting. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

Recent research illustrates the growing corporate use of contingent workers: In 2014, nearly 35% of the average company’s workforce was contingent or contract-based and this percentage will grow to 45% by 2017, says supply management firm Ardent Partners in its 2015-2016 State of Contingent Workforce Management.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

Now, as we begin to scale our care-delivery model to multiple new geographies, we’d like to share what more we’ve learned from our experiences in the two initial markets — lessons we think are applicable to other populations as well. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our results.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

For the past decade, the consensus strategy among hospital and health-system leaders has been to achieve scale in regional markets via mergers and acquisitions, to make medical staffs employees, and to assume more financial risk in insurance contracts and sponsored health plans. health systems. cardiology, orthopedics, oncology).