So my dentist is a friend as well as the person who nags me about my teeth. 🙂
She has always had a busy office, and the dental hygienists are always pretty friendly. They rotated on a multi year scale. One would get hired, work there for some years, then leave and move on.
Now? She can’t find any. I asked her why. She told me that she pays very well, (about 100k a year with bennies and such) but that all the hygienists want to work from an agency and have weird hours. She has to puzzle piece together a schedule to have a hygienist in for office hours. Do-able but time consuming and frustrating.
The other problem is that she can’t pay them much more because the dental insurance companies haven’t raised their remuneration rates since 2011. (Yelta Yental is just an fake example company to illustrate)
So she can either not take insurance, or not have hygienists. Either of which cost her time, money, and sanity.
So she’s a business owner caught between a rock and a hard place.
What does anti work think about this situation? Just curious.