Apr
10
2008
According to a poll by LifeCare, employers looking to boost the commitment levels of their employees would do well to consider offering them access to a backup child and elder care program. Eighty-eight percent of all working parents responding to the online poll said that having access to an employer-sponsored backup care program would make them much more/more loyal.
Here are the full results of the poll, conducted throughout the month of February on LifeCare’s private web site among employees of its 1,500 client organizations:
As a working parent, how would having access to an employer-sponsored backup child and elder care program affect your loyalty to your employer?
- - Would make me much more loyal – 61%
- - Would make me more loyal – 27%
- - Would make me a little more loyal – 5%
- - Would not make me any more loyal – 6%
- - Other – 1%