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Industry Index : Healthcare

Deputy Industry Index : COVID-19

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Top insights about Healthcare Practitioners for June 8, 2020

The gap between shifts scheduled versus worked for healthcare practitioners continues to grow at 50.2%, although we're seeing the gap slowly close as both shifts published and shifts worked decreases significantly.
Pre-pandemic, on average, managers planned shifts ahead by 11 days. Currently, managers are only planning for 9 days ahead, likely as a result of the current crisis climate.
Healthcare Practitioners Newsfeed usage has fluctuated over the last several weeks. This week it's slightly increased to mention COVID-19 updates to workers by 3%.

Shifts Scheduled vs Shifts Worked

Shift scheduled is the shifts being planned by a manager for an employee for a given day. Shifts worked is the actual shifts being worked by an employee on a given day.

Date : June 8, 2020

The gap between shifts scheduled versus worked for healthcare practitioners continues to grow at 50.2%, although we're seeing the gap slowly close as both shifts published and shifts worked decreases significantly.

The gap between Shifts Scheduled vs Shifts Worked is currently 50.2%.
In comparison to the previous week, the difference in shifts published is 93.7%.
In comparison to the previous week, the difference in shifts worked is 133.3%.
The gap represents the number of shifts being scheduled in comparison to no longer being worked on a given day.
This is due to shifts being canceled by business owners / managers and / or government restrictions.

Hours Scheduled vs Hours Worked

Hours scheduled is the shifts being scheduled by a manager for an employee for a given day. Hours worked is the actual shifts being worked by an employee on a given day.

Date: June 8, 2020

Similar to shifts, after a brief increase in hours being scheduled and hours being worked earlier this week, we're now seeing the gap between the two grow closer (51.1%) as hours scheduled and worked decreases.

The difference of Hours Scheduled vs Hours Worked for Healthcare is currently 51.1%.
When comparing to the previous day, the difference in hours scheduled is 87.1%.
When comparing to the previous day, the difference in hours worked is 127.4%.
The difference represents a decrease in workforce needs for business.
The difference represents a decrease in income for hourly workers.

Average Difference in Days between Shifts Created and Scheduled Date

Shifts Created is the day when the manager created the shift. Scheduled date is the day the shift is planned for.

Date: June 8, 2020

Pre-pandemic, on average, managers planned shifts ahead by 11 days. Currently, managers are only planning for 9 days ahead, likely as a result of the current crisis climate.

Currently, Healthcare Practitioners are now only advanced planning by 9 days.
Last week Healthcare Practitioners were advanced planning by 9.7 days.
Last month Healthcare Practitioners were advanced planning by 9.1 days.

Newsfeed Communication

Deputy Newsfeed is a digital tool for managers and hourly workers to communicate with each other via the Deputy app.

Words : COVID-19, Coronavirus, Virus, Pandemic, Epidemic

Date: June 8, 2020

Healthcare Practitioners Newsfeed usage has fluctuated over the last several weeks. This week it's slightly increased to mention COVID-19 updates to workers by 3%.

Newsfeed posts mentioning the pandemic to date is 3%.
Newsfeed posts mentioning the pandemic last week was 3.5%.

Information for Journalists and Editors

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