For context here, 1 of my best friends works in the IT department at a major hospital and his department like every other one is way understaffed and overworked and has been for years; and it like everywhere else has gotten worse since covid. Most of the IT department went remote including himself and they just about made it work but once the push to be on site as it was called it was made very, very, clear by the very head of the IT department itself that they were going to need more people and that it all honesty the hospital needed to rehire a bunch of the IT folks that they let go during covid b/c training someone new was going to cost too money but more importantly too time that his department didn't have because they didn't the manpower or resources to do that on a large scale given the current levels. It is more or less a similar story across every department other than the board.
What did the board do nothing other than be dismissive and even had the nerve to cry how hard it was on them and how much money the hospital and they themselves have lost during covid but how hiring more staff would cost too much.
Mind you this 1 of if not the largest and busiest hospitals in the for sure and maybe in the U.S itself. It makes so much money that if the board wanted to, they could have a fully staffed hospital and still make lots of money. But no, they are too busy giving themselves raises. It came to ahead when the head of the IT department threatened to force the board to buy them out. Needless to say, my friend is looking for another job. He doesn't want to, because while he doesn't like his job, he gets how important is and he feels that the board is endangering people by understaffing and he wants no part of it.
Sadly, this type of thing is the de-facto standard in almost all business. Mangement deliberately understaffs a business to critical sometimes dangerous levels and depending on the job endanger both the employees and the public at large all so c-suite can give themselves a pay day. This needs to be illegal.