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Instructor
Dr. Edward Hubbard
Learn How You Can Support and Engage Working Parents for Maximum Talent Retention
During the pandemic, working parents across the nation are forced to juggle their full-time careers along with their full-time families, all from their kitchen tables or makeshift offices as schools and businesses close doors to protect people from growing viruses.
Working from home, while children are also learning from home, proves to be challenging for many employees during this pandemic. This experience has been eye-opening for HR professionals trying to understand how to help working parents stay engaged and productive while often being “out of sight.”
While we’ve been adapting and overcoming pandemic challenges for close to two years, it is clear that working parents have unique challenges that need to be addressed.
As employers continue to innovate talent retention strategies, working parents should be top of mind! How you treat working parents is an indicator of how you treat talent in general.
Although there are many joys in raising children, parents who need and/or want to work can face some serious obstacles.
The impact of the pandemic is being felt around the world. As we continue to deal with the many challenges associated with the it, organizations are still doing all they can to care for their working parents. For many parents, this means having to cope with disrupted education schedules for their children, childcare issues, and family demands. For many organizations, in addition to meeting the needs of working parents they also are dealing with what is being referred to as the Great Resignation.
There are several innovative ways employers can support working parents and their families.