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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

Contracted services account for significant fractions of all hospitals’ operating expenses. In larger facilities, there is often an astonishing proliferation of special care units, ICUs, and quasi-ICUs that are expensive to staff and have high fixed cost profiles. Clinical staffing and variation.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

So not only were the current fees too weak to support his fixed costs, but future clients were turned off by his apparently excessive tastes. To address those cost overruns, Colin subleased some space, cancelled a redundant and very expensive trading service, and let one person go. What can you afford to lose?

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21 Types of Employment: Your Hire-To-Retire Guide

AIHR

As the job market evolves, companies are experimenting with various employment types to build more flexible staffing models. One reason for this is the cost of slow hiring. Taxes and deductions: Fixed-term employees are subject to the same taxes and deductions as permanent/full-time employees. Agencies set their own pay rates.