Blog Posts tagged as: lean staffing

Into the Details: Lean Staffing

Ellen, Business & Career Center, Business & Career Center

Many employees have experienced understaffing at their workplaces, especially recently, a situation exacerbated by COVID. They may not realize, though, that the circumstances they find themselves working in are not necessarily incidental or accidental. In this post we’ll discuss “lean staffing”, what the experience of this practice is like for employees, and what you can do as a job seeker to avoid it.

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Lean staffing, simply put, is intentional, severe understaffing. This is often …