How to Tell if a Company Really Is Family-Friendly
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Here's your Money Briefing for Monday, September 27th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Workers are leaving their jobs in record numbers, hoping for a fresh start at a new company.
How widespread are companies updating family-friendly policies since the pandemic?
And for many of them, a job that offers flexibility and work-life balance is key.
Some employees will care a lot about flexibility in working hours, working from home, parental leave, paid parental leave. Others may be looking to start a family and may care a lot about fertility treatments.
Not all company policies are the same, so what kind of questions should you be asking to find out if a company is really as family-friendly as advertised? Our reporter Alex Janin has been speaking with career experts about it. We'll talk to her after the break.
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As workers transition back to the office, many don't want to lose some of the work-life balance that came along with working from home over the past 18 months. Companies are recognizing this and are either adding or tweaking policies to give employees more flexibility. But the details of those policies aren't always readily available. WSJ reporter Alex Janin wrote about how to find out more about a company's policies before you take a job there. And she's here with us to talk about it. Alex, thank you for being with us.
Happy to be here.
So, Alex, how much have companies taken steps to institute or broaden family-friendly policies since the start of the pandemic?
Well, many have. A human resources expert I spoke to said that many companies are reconsidering and reinstituting their policies and saying, what can we do to not only retain the staff that we have, but to recruit new people? However, there are some companies that are sort of steadfast in doing things the old way. And this expert thinks that those companies will lose people. Workers have a lot of power now. They're looking for more flexibility. They've gotten used to working from home, working more flexible hours, being around their family during the pandemic. And that's sort of a new expectation that many workers have going forward.
Where should job seekers first look to verify a company's family-friendly claims?
Okay, so let's say someone is looking for a new job and they're researching potential employers. What's the first place they should look to find out what types of flexibility-focused policies are offered?
A good place to start is a company's website. Look at their social media and look at anonymous review-based websites like Glassdoor and there are other specific ones tailored for women like Fairy God Boss, In Her Sight, The Mom Project. There are certain sites like that that are catered toward specifically family-friendly policies or women, but then there are the more traditional ones, right? So it can be a good place to start to go on the website and keyword search for phrases around policies that are important to you. So keyword searching, things like family-friendly, paternity leave, compassionate, mental health, And then also keep an eye out for red flag words, which a career counselor I spoke to recommended looking out for.
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