Work Options Group Congratulates Clients Named by Working Mother Magazine as “100 Best”
Coveted list recognizes companies for the provision of childcare, flexibility, family-friendly programs, company culture and more
Superior, CO – September 25, 2007 – Several Work Options Group clients were named on Working Mother magazine’s 2007 list of 100 Best Companies, including:
- Accenture
- Baptist Health South Florida (Top 10)
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Covington & Burling LLP
- Lehman Brothers
- Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Microsoft
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- The McGraw-Hill Companies (Top 10)
- Turner Broad-Casting System, Inc.
- Verizon Communications
The list recognizes companies that offer work-life and women-friendly policies to attract, retain and promote female talent. Click here for the full list of this year's top firms and articles in this month’s issue of Working Mother magazine.
Included in these companies’ family-friendly employee benefits is a backup care program provided by Work Options Group. The program, 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 or a school closure for conferences/holidays.
The Backup Care Options program 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 temporary care with trusted providers, and employees pay employer-subsidized rates for either in-home or center-based care.
A growing number 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. Backup care is one of the fastest growing employee benefits, according to survey results released in June 2007 by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), which estimates that 14% of employers offered some type of backup care assistance in 2006, up from just 6% of employers in 2005.
About Work Options Group
Work Options Group's Backup Care Options program enables more than 600,000 employees throughout the U.S. and Canada to get to work when they experience temporary breakdowns in their child, adult and elder care arrangements. Backup Care Options offers temporary care in every location, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for infants through the elderly, whether they are healthy or mildly ill. Work Options Group has offered nationwide backup care for more than 16 years and has scheduled more than 1 million hours of backup care – hours that would otherwise be counted as employee absenteeism. In 2006 alone, the company arranged more than 200,000 hours of temporary care, providing employees with trusted, affordable, temporary care and saving client employers millions of dollars in absenteeism and lost productivity costs.