Hospital CEO asks employees about budget decisions: Final results(runningahospital.blogspot.com)

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Hospital CEO asks employees about budget decisions: Final results

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This is one of the few blogs that I actually keep up with on a regular basis. I used to work at this hospital as an RA before I left in 2007.

Over the past few weeks, the CEO has been holding meetings with his employees openly about their financial constraints and layoffs. If you go back a few posts, you will see that many employees even leave comments on the blog about the topic.

One idea he presented to his employees was to 'protect' the lower wage earners. While, from a budget standpoint, it is straight-forward to layoff a higher wage earner, he presented the overall idea to his employees in such a way, that everyone rallied around the idea. Employees willingly gave up certain benefits in order to reduce layoffs across the hospital.