Online auction for scheduling employee shifts and setting pay?
Findlaw (AP) reports: “Nurses Use Web to Choose Shifts and Pay.”
The marketplace efficiencies of an e-bay-like bidding system for nurses are described.
“Traditionally, hospitals have trouble filling overnight and weekend slots and rely on traveling nurses or those from temporary agencies to fill the gap. Through bidding, hospitals save labor costs by using fewer outside nurses while letting their own nurses control when they work and how much they earn.”
“Last year, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System in South Carolina created a bidding site after learning about St. Peter’s success. The system’s three hospitals currently allow RNs and licensed practical nurses to bid and will expand to other staff in the coming months.
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, the system’s largest hospital with 588 beds, saw its nurse vacancy rate plummet from 20 percent to 7 percent since it went online. The hospital also cut the number of outside nurses by more than 90 percent, saving between $10,000 and $20,000 a week, and will phase out using agency nurses altogether by the end of the year.”
Here’s the Spartanburg auction’s main page.
Check it out. I think it’s way cool.
