Managing a career and a family has always been a struggle for working parents, especially if they don’t have any support solutions in place. With more than one third of today’s workforce made up of working parents — many with children under five years old — there is a strong economic and business case for keeping them in the workforce.
Recent data shows working parents today are more comfortable speaking up and asking for the benefits they need, and report they will go elsewhere to find a company that offers them. Seventy percent of respondents to the 2024 Modern Family Index, conducted by the Harris Poll, agreed that working for a company that has benefits to support work/life balance is “non-negotiable.” Being a working parent shouldn’t get to the point where it’s affecting one’s mental health or has negative consequences on career trajectories.
