The Problem
Workplaces face a growing challenge as their employees are increasingly called to care for aging or ill family members. This can be a spouse, a child, an adult sibling, or close friend. Loyal employees are also loyal to their families. Employers, however, can’t see the impact…
Employee caregivers experience clinically significant depression, serious sleep loss and disturbance, weight gain, injuries, neglect self care, and have increased risk for stroke or heart attack. In fact, as of May 2019, burnout was designated as an “occupational phenomenon” by the World Health Organization.
Employees who have left jobs to caregive is not limited to employees in their 40’s and 50’s. Large numbers of people 18-25 have already quit to caregive . (HBR)
30% of workers say their careers have been adversely affected by caregiving obligations.
Our Mission
We are non-profit 501(c)3 organization that serves as a catalyst for research, advocacy and organizational design at the intersection of caregiving and work.
We collaborate with employers to understand how caregiving currently impacts employee and team productivity, health, acquisition, retention, and well-being. Then we work with leadership and employees to co-design strategies and interventions to care, work and thrive.
We also partner with academics, non-profits, and for-profits as a network orchestrator to enable experiments between communities of need and multi-disciplinary resources for mutually beneficial outcomes.
We help you orchestrate across your teams and partner with your employees to create scalable ways your organization can better work, care, and thrive…together.
First, we work to understand your organization’s problem space/s:
Are there bright spots?
What existing benefits and programs do you have?
How is caregiving currently impacting your organization?
What are the range of experiences people currently have?
Are there gaps in policies or resources?
We’ll also ask what we could measure.
We’ll help you bring the right people to the table from across your organization.
Together, we’ll co-create with your employees to design participatory interventions and tools, identify challenges, and create policies and programs tailored to your culture, serving as a foundation for a culture of care.
All new services and programs are prototyped before investments in technology, content, or resources are made for agile program design.
We’ll work closely with your teams to deliver and execute new programs and services, measure their impact, and learn what works in the context of your organization -- its unique culture and challenges.
The Caring Company by Harvard Business School / Read Full Article
Research, Design, Advocacy
Organizational Psychology, Human Capital, Culture
Strategy, Project Management, Analytics
User Experience, Behavior, Systems
