Family Friendly Employers
Judi Casey April 16th, 2008
Everyone’s talking about family friendly employers. Our recent Network poll found that “family friendly employers” was the work and family topic of greatest interest. Fifty-six percent of respondents asked the Network to develop work-family resources on family friendly employers, followed by resilience, stress and coping (39%) and return on investment or the business case (34%).
You may be wondering, what exactly are family friendly employers doing? Well, a lot of amazing things that benefit employees, employers and their work organizations – a triple win. And it’s not only behaviors that are changing, but the realization that attitudes and values about the world of work and the role of employees can be recrafted to better meet business and personal needs.
This evolution is described in a recent report from the Families and Work Institute called the 2008 Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Work. The report illustrates how 24 varied communities representing all types of organizations can make work work for both employees and employers.
Perhaps there are practices detailed in the report which could be implemented in your organization. What is your workplace doing to make work work? What could they be doing? What would be the most helpful to you?
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