funeral employment

Can the 4-day work week succeed in funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2023 /
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    If you own, operate, or manage a Death Care business you have massaged your business through the pandemic, supply chain breakdowns, inflated related cost issues, and more in the past two to three years.  Are you ready for what many people are advocating in the near future — the “4-Day Work Week”?  …

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Is there something to learn from other industries

By Funeral Director Daily / February 9, 2022 /

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has greatly influenced and impacted the death care industry over the past two years.  In general, there has been more deaths and less public services of such deaths.  One might argue, especially in larger markets, that the increased number of deaths has more than made up in…

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Employment trends. . . how might they affect funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / August 31, 2021 /

55% of Americans expect to search for a new job in the next 12 months.  That’s the headline from this Bankrate survey conducted recently. I find it interesting as to how the unemployment and employment situations in America has been since the pandemic.  The linked article mentions that labor shortages, in general, have been heating…

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Student debt affects mortuary students and mortuary workers as well

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2021 /

While I have not stayed up to date on the federal government dictates of the Biden administration, the moratorium on student debt payment is, I believe, ending on February 1, and may be extended.  The moratorium program has proven to be well received, as according to the article mentioned in the next paragraph, almost 90%…

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Career changes. . . can funeral service benefit?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2021 /

I recently came across a couple of surveys of of American workers and their career satisfaction and thoughts of career changes.  One thing is certain. . .we are not in the 1960’s when young people were told to “get a good job, hold on to it, and retire with a pension”. We now know that…

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Funeral director employment. . . where are we at? What can we do?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 9, 2020 /

A couple of things have happened in the last week that made me wonder about the state of employment in the funeral director world.  In the past week I just happened to meet a gentleman, whom I’m guessing is in his early 30’s.  Sitting next to this gentleman at a coffee shop I learned that…

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In the Navy . . . . . .

By Funeral Director Daily / February 10, 2020 /

Where you can find pleasure Search the world for treasure Learn science technology Where you can begin to make all of your dreams come true . . . In the Navy!! If you were my vintage and attended college in the late 1970’s you would recognize those words as the 1979 musical hit from The…

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Minnesota – and the rest of the nation – will need funeral directors

By Funeral Director Daily / December 30, 2019 /

I came across this article last week which describes the work of Victor Sweeney as the single funeral director in the rural Minnesota town of Warren.  Sweeney describes what he does and why he loves taking care of people at the time of death. The article also goes into the state of the profession in…

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Will the Workforce Be There

By Funeral Director Daily / May 14, 2018 /

On Friday I was lucky enough to get to go through what has became one of the funnest days of the year for me.  For the 4th straight year I was selected via my position on the University of Minnesota Board to participate in the commencement exercises for the school’s graduates of Mortuary Science program.…

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