Working Family Caregivers Get Better Best Practices

This week, the The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its recommendations to employers to help their working family caregivers.

In its report, the Commission wrote:

Employers adopting flexible workplace policies that help employees achieve a satisfactory work-life balance may not only experience decreased complaints of unlawful discrimination, but may also benefit their workers, their customer base, and their bottom line. Numerous studies have found that flexible workplace policies enhance employee productivity, reduce absenteeism, reduce costs, and appear to positively affect profits. They also aid recruitment and retention efforts, allowing employers to retain a talented, knowledgeable workforce and save the money and time that would otherwise have been spent recruiting, interviewing, selecting and training new employees. The benefits of these programs remain constant regardless of the economic climate, and some employers have implemented workplace flexibility programs as an alternative to workforce reductions. Such programs not only enable employers to “go lean without being mean,” but they also can position organizations to rebound quickly as soon as business improves.

To read the remainder of the report, visit here.

We wondered: What’s your experience like as a working family caregiver? Does your employer put “best practices” in place? What’s the challenge for you in managing your caregiving role and your career?