HUNTSVILLE — The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber Foundation has renewed its partnership for 2023 with the national Best Place for Working Parents program. The program offers real-time designations to businesses whose family-friendly policies qualify through a first-of-its-kind, 3-minute online self-assessment.
The Chamber Foundation’s partnership offers local business leaders the opportunity to instantly determine whether their organization qualifies to earn a Best Place for Working Parents designation.
In 2022, more than 90 local companies earned the designation. There is no cost to take the assessment for 2023.
Originating in Fort Worth in 2020, the confidential online business self-assessment allows businesses to tout innovative practices that are helping working parents provide for their families, and adapt and thrive at work.
The Best Place for Working Parents assessment highlights the top 10 research-backed policies proven to benefit working parents and a business’s bottom line.
While family-friendly policies have a direct impact on working parents, local and national research proves there is also a serious business case to being family-friendly:
- 83% of millennials would leave one job for another with stronger family-friendly
- Replacing an employee costs an employer six to nine months of that employee’s salary.
- Over 60% of working parents said childcare issues have caused them to miss
- Employers lose $13 billion annually due to childcare challenges faced by their workforce.
The online self-assessment provides a real-time dashboard of how a business fares against other businesses of like size and industry across each of the top 10 family-friendly practices in their region.
Each of the top 10 policies include research on their business ROI and case studies that tell the story of how local businesses’ practices have impacted their productivity, retention, job satisfaction and attraction. It gives real-time dashboard results.
The Best Place for Working Parents designation for qualifying businesses can be accessed by clicking here.
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