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.

 
 
“I’m proud the City of Austin is leading by example and supporting family-friendly workplace policies that can help everyone in our community thrive. Offering a family-friendly workplace is essential for Austin businesses to attract and retain top talent, and I’m hopeful that our local businesses will join us in working to make our community the best place to live, work, and raise a family.”
— Mayor Kirk Watson
 

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

 

Onsite Child Care

When businesses provide childcare for employees, employee absences decrease by 30% and job turnover declines by as much as 60%.

Source: (BridgeCare)

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)

Backup Child Care

An average business with 250 employees can save $75,000 per year in lost work time by subsidizing care for employees’ sick children. To make sure their children were taken care of, 67% of parents said they used a sick day, 56% were late to work and 39% took a vacation day.

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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