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How to help freelancers make the transition to being full-time employees

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But, as a single mom with two teenage children, a growing health insurance bill, and looming college tuition, the pressures of freelancing’s ebb-and-flow income patterns were stressful. James had been a successful freelance writer for more than two decades. James, on a whim, decided to apply for a full-time job.

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The burnout epidemic is hitting healthcare workers hard

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Individually, most of the demands are reasonable and Carlos is naturally good at multitasking. And I’ll look up and someone else is standing in my door with something they need me to sign, and so on.” But even a “people person” like Carlos can end up feeling fried by the end of the day when the demands come at him rapid-fire.