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Best Places For Working Parents Massachusetts

  • A.I.M. Mutual Insurance Companies
  • Accutech Packaging
  • Advanced Cable Ties
  • Alkermes Inc.
  • Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
  • Associated Industries of Massachusetts
  • Babson College
  • Big Dipper Hospitality
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • CGI
  • CGI Business Solutions
  • Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
  • Chicopee Industrial Contractors
  • Commercial Distributing Company
  • Cowls Building Supply
  • The DAVIS Companies
  • Dell Technologies
  • Dorel Juvenile
  • Eastern Bank
  • Eastie Farm
  • Hypertherm Associates
  • The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Lantheus
  • Little Sprouts Inc.
  • MLS Property Information Network
  • Morgan, Brown & Joy
  • North Easton Machine
  • Onyx Specialty Papers
  • Pioneer Valley Books
  • Procter & Gamble
  • R.H. White Companies
  • Rocheleau Tool
  • Quabbin Wire and Cable
  • Seniorlink
  • Spear Management Group
  • Tech Foundry
  • Urban Woodworks
  • Ultragenyx
  • YMCA of Greater Springfield

Brooke Thomson, President & CEO

“Massachusetts employers who wrestle each day with a generational labor shortage, understand better than anyone the obstacles that face caregivers as they seek to return to the workplace or remain on the job”

Top 10 Policies to benefit families and their positive impact on businesses

Policy 1 | Company-Paid Health Care Coverage

100% of AIM members offer company-paid health care coverage.  The average company contribution for a family plan is 67%. (HR Practices Survey)

Policy 2 | Paid Time Off

Unlimited vacation time eliminates vacation liability for companies an average of $1,898 per employee. (FRACTL)

Policy 3 | Parental Leave

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 to the same employer after leave. (Impaq International and Institute for Women’s Policy Research and Scientific American)

Policy 4 | Nursing Benefits

Employers who support women who choose to breastfeed have more satisfied and loyal employees, which can also result in higher productivity. (Science Direct)

Policy 5 | “Best Place” Designation

42% of AIM members say that administering a benefits program to meet the needs of a multigenerational workforce is a priority. (HR Practices Survey)

Policy 6 | Onsite Child Care

3% of AIM members offer childcare services. (HR Practices Survey)

Policy 7 | Child Care Assistance

Employers that offer Dependent Care FSAs can save up to $382.50 per employee. (For an employer with 100 employees participating in the full $5,000 FSA, that employer would save $38,200 per year.) (Child Care & Parent Productivity)

Policy 8 | Backup Child Care

An average business with 250 employees can save $75,000 per year in lost work time by subsidizing care for employees’ sick children. To make sure their children were taken care of, 67% of parents said they used a sick day, 56% were late to work and 39% took a vacation day. (Early Care & Learning Council)

Policy 9 | Flexible Hours

Of the 30% of credentialed women who leave the workforce, 70% say they would have stayed if they had access to flexibility. (Werk Co.)

Policy 10 | Working Remotely

63% of AIM member companies allow employees to work a remote/hybrid schedule. (HR Practices Survey)