Childcare issues and the workplace

Today's employees are trying harder than ever to balance their demands of home life and work life. Working parents have an increased absenteeism rate as they search for childcare, participate in school functions, care for sick children, and respond to unexpected problems. Today's employers are studying the cost of offering various work/family benefits to help in these types of situation. Helping solve these problems will not only help out the employees but also improve …

…cases the company would assist the employees with finical assistance to take care of these types of situations. By having benefits such as these it was found that the companies that where involve had a much better turnover rate than those who did not. Loyalty to the company was a big factor in having a good turnover rate. Reference; Retrieved from the World Wide Web on August 18, 2003, from http://www.childcareaware.org/en/dailyparent/vol7/