Family-Friendly Workplace Model

Family-friendly policies provide benefits such as on-site health services, childcare, family planning, maternity leave, transportation, and flexible scheduling. These benefits help employees manage their careers and family responsibilities more successfully. Such benefits can lower employees’ stress levels, improve individual and family health, and increase job satisfaction. Family-friendly workplace benefits can even help reduce poverty by making it possible for more people—especially women—to remain in the workforce.

Employers also benefit from family-friendly policies by helping them to retain highly-skilled employees who might seek other jobs or leave the workforce entirely. Retaining workers, particularly in specialized industries, reduces companies’ training and recruitment costs. Implementing family-friendly policies can also decrease absenteeism, enhance productivity, and improve employers’ ability to attract competitive applicants. However, many employers are still unaware of the potential gains associated with creating a more family-friendly workplace.

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