Work Options Group and FOUR Clients Named by Colorado Magazine as “Best Companies for Working Families”
Award-winning company provides innovative employee benefit to award-winning clients
Superior, CO – September 17, 2007 – Colorado Housing & Finance Authority (CHFA), Hunter Douglas, The Children’s Hospital and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) – all Work Options Group clients – were recognized on Friday for offering and supporting family-friendly policies, procedures and work environments.
The annual “Best Companies for Working Families” list was coordinated by Colorado Parent Magazine and based on submissions from more than local 100 companies, which were reviewed by a panel of independent judges. Below are the rankings for Superior-based Work Options Group and its client companies:
Small Company Category
- Work Options Group, Third Place
Medium Company Category
- Colorado Housing & Finance Authority (CHFA), First Place
Large Company
- Hunter Douglas, Top Ten Listing
Non-Profit Category
- The Children's Hospital, Second Place
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Third Place
Included in each of these organization’s family-friendly employee benefits is a backup care program provided by Work Options Group. The program, called Backup Care Options, enables employees to continue working despite temporary breakdowns in their childcare or eldercare arrangements. Example situations include an ill child, an absent adult caregiver, a school closure for conferences/holidays, or an adult/elder recovering from illness/surgery.
The Backup Care Options program from Work Options Group resolves breakdowns in care for any age dependent (infants through the elderly), healthy or mildly ill, any time of the day or night, every day of the year. Backup care specialists are available 24/7 to gather information and schedule care with trusted providers, and employees pay employer-subsidized rates for in-home or center-based care. A growing number of companies across various industries offer Backup Care Options to provide employees with trusted, affordable, temporary care for a variety of situations; this solution enables employees to remain productive at work and manage their family caregiving concerns, plus it helps employers promote work/life effectiveness, reduce absenteeism and increase productivity.
About Work Options Group - www.workoptionsgroup.com
Work Options Group was founded by a leader who personally understands the importance of caregiving (as both a mother of two children and an employer of many working mothers), and who has continued to emphasize that importance as the Superior-based company has grown to employ over 60 people. For more than 20 years, Work Options Group has been consulting business leaders on how to create productive and family-friendly work environments and has become the leading provider of backup care services to top national employers such as Microsoft, Princeton University, Merrill Lynch, Verizon Wireless and Accenture. Because of the company’s business focus, the company strives to serve as a leader in creating innovative work-life solutions for corporate clients, and also in offering Work Options Group employees the tools needed to balance careers and family responsibilities. A few of these innovative and family-friendly benefits offered to Work Options Group employees include:
- 100 hours of 100% subsidized temporary care for employees’ loved ones of any age, healthy or mildly ill
- A “bring your baby to work” policy that allows parents to bring newborns into the office on a regular basis during their first 4 months of infancy
- Unlimited information & referral (I&R) services for children, adults and pets