The Best Place for Working Parents® offers a competitive designation that recognizes innovation across the top 10 research-backed family-friendly workplace policies. Businesses can qualify to become a Best Place for Working Parents® by taking the first-of-its-kind business online self-assessment.

 
 

Why take the Best Place for Working Parents® assessment?

• Gain a real-time snapshot of how your business fares in relation to other local companies of similar size and industry – across each of the top 10 research-backed policies proven to impact families and businesses’ bottom line.

• An immediate opportunity for qualified businesses to promote their company’s innovative family-friendly policies as a designated Best Place for Working Parents® to help attract and retain top talent.

• Access to research and resources to help strengthen family-friendly workplace culture.

 

These 10 policies are research-proven to benefit families and have a positive impact on businesses’ profitability.

Child Care Assistance

Employers that offer Dependent Care FSAs can save up to $382.50 per employee. (For an employer with 100 employees participating in the full $5,000 FSA, that employer would save $38,200 per year.)

Source: (Child Care & Parent Productivity)

Flexible Hours

Of the 30% of credentialed women who leave the workforce, 70% say they would have stayed if they had access to flexibility.

Working Remotely

People who worked from home increased performance by 13% and the company’s attrition rates for the work from home group decreased by 50%.

 

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