Tag: working parents
Celebrating Grandparents, and the Parents Holding It All Together
Posted onIn this post: In celebrating grandparents this year, it’s worth naming something real: intergenerational parenting isn’t always easy, especially when it means starting to help care for our own parents, and that’s happening at an earlier […]
Children’s Mental Health Problems are Family ProblemsThat Impact the Workplace
Posted onPost-pandemic family life has been dramatically impacted by the perfect storm of working parent burnout in combination with our national pediatric mental health crisis. Children and teens are suffering from anxiety, depression, and suicide at alarming […]
The Hidden Driver of Workplace Stress Most Employers Aren’t Addressing: Parenting
Posted onStrengthening Families to Strengthen the Workforce Employee well-being has become a strategic priority for organizations seeking to attract, retain, and support a thriving workforce. Many companies have expanded benefits focused on physical health, mental health, and […]
Strengthening Families to Strengthen the Workforce
Posted onEmployee well-being has become a strategic priority for organizations seeking to attract, retain, and support a thriving workforce. Many companies have expanded benefits focused on physical health, mental health, and financial well-being. But a growing number […]
Is “Work-Life Balance” Impossible? And Why Does it Matter?
Posted onWith the lines between work and home forever blurred, the challenges faced by working parents have been magnified. And the very mention of “Work-Life Balance” can send parents into hysterical laughter or hopeless resignation. Some call […]
5 Big Picture Strategies for Making Business Travel (and Other Challenges) Easier on Working Parents and Their Families
Posted onSince the pandemic, business travel has become a much bigger challenge for families. Parents and children are coping with stressful thoughts and feelings resulting from prolonged fear and loss. You’re also spending more time under the […]
Are You a Member of a Company ERG That Supports Parents?
Posted onNo matter what industry you’re in, work-life harmony is extremely important to well being and success—both at home and at work. However, a heartbreaking 66% of working parents struggle with parental burnout, the result of chronic […]
A Perfect Storm for U.S. Working Families
Posted onChildren’s Mental Health Crisis and Working Parent Burnout: Companies Can Help One definition of a perfect storm is “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.” We are seeing precisely this condition […]
