Creating a positive environment for working parents can help you attract and retain good workers. These policy changes can help:
- Offering several weeks of paid time off for new parents.
- Establishing a part-time return-to-work policy for new moms and dads.
- Starting a dialogue around how parenthood impacts workers.
- Enabling scheduling flexibility to accommodate working parents and school schedules.
- Modeling putting families first (such as scheduling meetings to start after kids are off to school).
- Also attending to workers who don’t have children (e.g., enable self-care such as an occasional long lunch hour to connect with friends or long weekends to visit family).
- Giving employees access to parent-focused Slack channels where they can seek advice, share thoughts and feeling, and just commiserate.
