Family Friendly Business Practices

While most of us attempt to put our families first, the reality is that we must also earn a living in order to best care for our loved ones. Striking a balance between work and home has always been a very difficult task, especially in current times when most families are made up of two working parents.

For an employer, reaching this balance is just as difficult. They must set and reach numerous business goals, while also maintaining a responsibility for ensuring that they are meeting employee needs. The research tells us that family-friendly working conditions and practices increase a company’s productivity, while allowing employees to more easily strike this balance that they want and deserve. The concept of “family-friendly” could include maternity and paternity leave, flexible working hours, childcare assistance, job share schemes and allowing employees to work from home. According to a survey conducted at the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University, nine out of ten companies which offered flexible working arrangements said they were cost-effective and led to more happy and content employees.

Key findings related to the business benefits of family friendly practices, as determined in another study conducted by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) include:

Reduced casual sickness absence: most employers felt that sickness absence due to employees’ caring responsibilities had been reduced. This was reinforced by employees who felt more able to be honest about absence due to dependants’ illness.
Improved retention: each of the firms was able to identify individuals who had stayed with them longer because of their access to family-friendly provision. Most could estimate the number of employees who would have left had such provision not been available.
Improved productivity: many of the firms were convinced that employees working flexible hours were more productive than those working traditional hours.
Improved recruitment: the firms felt that offering family-friendly practices can attract potential recruits when seeking vacancies and making comparative judgments of job offers.
Improved morale and commitment: most firms believed that morale and commitment among employees with caring responsibilities was enhanced by family-friendly policies.

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Family Friendly Business Listing

EMPOWER
    6420 SE 15th Street
    Midwest City, OK  73110
    405-732-9946

Family & Children Services
    808 s. Peoria
    Tulsa, OK  74120
    918-282-7522

First Baptist Church of Piedmont
    Piedmont Road and Jackson Road
    Piedmont, OK  73078


First Christian Church of Cushing
    300 E. Moses
    Cushing, OK  74023


Jesus Center
    10198 E Admiral Pl
    Tulsa, OK  74116
    (918) 835-3787

Springdale Alliance church
    4231 N. W. 50th
    Oklahoma City, OK  73112
    405-943-3271

Tulsa Housing Authority
    415 East Independence
    Tulsa, OK  74106
    (918) 582-0021

Wraparound Tulsa
    7010 S. Yale Ave Ste. 100
    Tulsa , OK  74136
    918-851-5786