Best Place For Working Parents™ Online Self-Assessment Now LIVE!
An unprecedented public-private partnership is working to support children and their families in Fort Worth. Best Place For Kids!™ is aimed at making Fort Worth not just the best city for children, but also known as the best city for working parents. A new online, 3-minute business self-assessment is now LIVE and can report instantaneously whether a local business qualifies for a Best Place for Working Parents™ designation. Click here to take the assessment.
Why Are We Building the Best Place for Kids™?
As the 13th largest city in the country and one of the fastest-growing large cities, Fort Worth is attracting new, young residents and experiencing rapid economic growth. In addition, a recent study shows that Fort Worth has the 2nd highest percentage of families with children in the United States.
In order to support the success of these families and ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn and thrive, The Best Place for Kids™ is championed by Mayor Betsy Price and established by a varied group of representatives ranging from the City of Fort Worth, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, business leaders, and experts in early education. This team has launched a whole-community approach to education and economic development — connecting students and families to quality educational opportunities and community resources, lifting up innovation across the education continuum, and initiating the first-of-its-kind Best Place For Working Parents™ online self-assessment and innovator awards around family-friendly policies.
How Do Companies Earn a Best Place for Working Parents™ Designation?
By taking an online self-assessment based on 10 research-backed family-friendly policies which is now available and can be completed in just 3 minutes. Once submitted, the Best Place for Working Parents™ assessment instantly determines how a company compares to other companies of like size and industry in Fort Worth — and whether that company qualifies for a Best Place for Working Parents™ designation.
Family-friendly policies lead to success for both employees and the employer. When businesses put families first, they’re better able to attract and retain a competitive workforce. Millennials will leave one job for another with stronger family policies and supports at a rate of 83 percent. And, as many business owners know all too well, replacing an employee is expensive. In fact, when replacing an employee it costs a business 6-9 months of that employee’s salary on average.
Understanding the importance of ROI, this assessment is based on 10 policies that have been shown to directly impact a business’s bottom line. Some examples of those benefits include:
Maternity Leave – First-time mothers who use some form of paid leave are 32 percent less likely to quit their jobs before or after childbirth and are 19 percent more likely to return to the same employer after leave.
Onsite Child Care – Offering this option to employees leads to a 30 percent decrease in employee absences, and job turnover declines by as much as 60 percent.
Working From Home – Employees of companies that allowed them to work from home increased performance by 13 percent and the company’s attrition rates for the work from home group decreased by 50 percent.
After taking the self-assessment, if a business qualifies for a Best Place for Working Parents™ designation, they will receive the tools to share this exciting news via digital badging on their website, social media, and in print. These organizations will also be considered for one of the Family-Friendly Innovator Awards that will be announced at the Mayor’s annual State of the City Address hosted by the Fort Worth Chamber on February 28, 2020.
The deadline to take the self-assessment and be considered for the inaugural awards is February 10, 2020. Employees of all distinctions are encouraged to visit www.bestplace4workingparents.com to complete the assessment and learn more about how each of these 10 family-friendly policies can directly impact a company’s ability to attract and retain top talent.
* All statistics cited at www.BestPlace4Kids.com