The Best Place for Working Parents Georgia Announced
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce and GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students are pleased to announce a new initiative that promotes family-friendly practices in workplaces and honors the Georgia employers that embrace them. The Best Place for Working Parents Georgia is a designation achieved through an easy online self-assessment at the national BP4WP site. The Georgia Chamber has earned a 2025 Best Place for Working Parents designation. Employers that make the cut earn a badge of honor to display on their websites, signage, and other collateral—a signal of commitment to workers’ families, their work/life balance, and their health and happiness.
What led to this partnership?
Individually, both GEEARS and the Georgia Chamber have illuminated the critical connection between family-friendly workplace policies and productivity, retention, job satisfaction, and attraction. National research indicates that no business can ignore this imperative.
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66% of women who have access to flexibility in the workplace plan to stay with their employers more than three years, compared with just 19% who don’t.
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83% of millennials will leave one job for another with stronger family-friendly support.
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First-time mothers who use some form of paid leave are 32% less likely to quit their jobs before or after childbirth and are 19% more likely to return the same employer after leave.
To celebrate the Georgia businesses that invest in these solutions, GEEARS and the Georgia Chamber teamed up with Best Place for Working Parents ® to launch a designation for Georgia.
We are excited to partner with GEEARS to increase awareness of the full scope of family-friendly policies available for employers to be the best places to work for working parents."
What exactly are family-friendly practices?
There are numerous ways to support employees and their families. Organizations can provide paid family leave or physical and mental health benefits. Maybe a business has a work-at-home policy or flexible hours. Perhaps there’s an office lactation space for pumping moms. Maybe there’s even an on-site childcare program. The possibilities are as diverse as employees’ wants and needs.
Why should businesses apply to be a Best Place for Working Parents ® Georgia?
The cost-free self-assessment tool is a breeze that can be completed in three minutes. Yet its reward is great. A designation positions an organization among the leading family-friendly businesses in the U.S. This marketing win can impress potential clients and employees alike. Best Place for Working Parents ® is also a resource for organizations who want to build and improve upon their family-friendly success stories.
Why is this a compelling story?
With the effects of the pandemic still reverberating through our workforce, now is the time to tell the stories of Georgia companies who value their employees with measurable, effective benefits—and earn high rewards and returns from that investment. For your storytelling, we’re happy to connect you with business leaders who’ve achieved Best Place for Working Parents ® Georgia designations.
