With a fresh wave of college graduates getting ready to enter the workforce, employers will have plenty of new opportunities to find new talent. But whether they’re looking for entry-level workers or more seasoned professionals, it’s important their recruiting strategies and benefits are up to the task.
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Once employees are hired, it’s critical employers are offering best-in-class benefits that support them at every stage of their lives. To gather that inspiration, it might be helpful to look beyond what U.S. employers are doing and take a page from employers a bit farther afield.
Flexible work arrangements, robust parental leave policies, and other workplace protections are highly envied by U.S. workers, according to a new survey by a law firm, which surveyed 3,000 employees, asking them which international labor laws they wish they could adapt in their own states.
These 10 countries are leading the way when it comes to labor laws and protections:
Sometimes, it takes personal experience to improve the workplace — before she was even a mom herself, Abbey Donnell had heard the horror stories about breastfeeding at work. It inspired her to leave her marketing career and launch Work & Mother, which partners with both employers and landlords to create a network of functional and fully-equipped pumping suites by consulting with entire buildings to have rooms built.
People were being told to use conference rooms, others were roaming the office trying to look for vacant rooms to pop into or using bathrooms and parked cars, Donnell says. A shared space amenity for the entire office is a win-win — it would solve the legal obligations for every single employer in the building and meet the needs of mothers in a higher caliber way.
Employers and employees that feel satisfied with their partnership lead to better business outcomes overall. To keep that connection transparent, it’s important to create and sustain a caring work culture. And small efforts have big rewards, says Dr. Kristin Tugman, VP of holistic wellness, health, and productivity at Prudential.
We get too caught up in all the goals we set out to accomplish from a business perspective and we forget about the human, she says. How can we create a culture that is supportive of employees regardless of what’s happening in their lives?
