Apr 8, 2013 | Blog

How Family-Friendly Is Your Workplace?

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In the global competition for talent, organizations often distinguish themselves by offering attractive benefits to their employees. One increasingly popular way to do this is to offer family-friendly benefits, like on-site child care. Employers’ family-friendly programs also must ensure employee retention, satisfaction, and productivity, which would constitute a return on investment for the employer. The popularity of benefits and programs that meet the needs of working families continues to rise. According to Families and Work Institute’s 2012 National Study of Employers, 63% of employers allow some of their employees to work from home occasionally; this is up from 34% in 2005.

 
Our research on these benefits launches on the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). While FMLA has ensured certain protections and benefits for working families, it could never account for every aspect of the modern worker’s needs in relation to their families. Elder care, flexible working arrangements and schedules, health and wellness benefits and child care are all issues on the minds and at the desks of employers and employees.
 
HCI and our research partner CCLC, a division of Knowledge Universe, are pleased to invite you to participate in our latest survey that will explore the topic of family-friendly workplace benefits, and how they are positioned within organizations. Most notably, this study will explore the connection between these benefits/policies and organizational attraction and employee retention. 

Your participation in this survey will reveal how commonplace family-friendly benefits are in organizations and what implications are there for organizational and employee performance. As our "thank you" for sharing your insights through the survey, you will receive a complimentary copy of this unique research report and a $200 discount for any of our upcoming HCI conferences.