Employer Child Care Roadmap
A TOOLKIT FOR EMPLOYERS: Family-Friendly Policies, Child Care support and Community Impact
- Employers and employees have come to new realizations over the past few years in navigating the public health pandemic.
- For employers, there is greater awareness about the need to better understand and meet the needs of employees.
- For employees, there is a greater desire for a healthy work-life balance.
Boost Your Company's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
When it comes to today’s hot jobs market, recruiting and retaining talented employees are essential for every business.
The best way to recruit and retain top talent is by understanding why employees look to leave a job and what policies could foster company loyalty, a culture of respect, job satisfaction, and engagement that leads to higher productivity (e.g., pre-empt the Great Resignation or Quiet Quitting).
Investing in family-friendly policies and child care can boost employee morale and job satisfaction, reduce turnover, and increase productivity.
Idaho Statistics
76,390
Children under age 6 in Idaho with working parents
67%
Working mothers in Idaho with children under age 6
76.8%
Working mothers in Idaho with children age 6-17
33%
Percentage of an employee’s total compensation (earnings and benefits) that turnover costs employers
About the Toolkit
- The Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children (Idaho AEYC) and the Committee for Economic Development (CED) of The Conference Board have partnered on a business toolkit for child care to highlight ways through which employers can:
- expand the availability of child care,
- promote ways to make child care more affordable, and
- promote family-friendly workplace policies to help balance the stress between work and family.
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is the public policy center of The Conference Board. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led organization delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions in the nation’s interest. CED Trustees are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies who bring their unique experience to address today’s pressing policy issues. Collectively they represent 30+ industries and over 4 million employees.
For several decades, CED has provided a business voice in support of early learning programs. CED policy studies Why Child Care Matters (1993), Preschool for All (2002), Unfinished Business (2012) and CED commissioned research – including research conducted by Nobel Laureate in Economics James Heckman – made the economic case arguments for early investments in children and identified child care as a central workforce issue. Recent studies and policy papers include: Pathways to High-Quality Child Care: The Workforce Investment Credit (2017), Child Care in State Economies: 2019 Update, and The Economic Role of Paid Child Care in the U.S. (2022).