Employer Programs
In today’s tough economy, your business needs every employee focused, reliable, motivated and productive. One in four U.S. employees not only works hard for his or her employer, however, but also cares for an aging or ill adult and/or has medical issues personally. These burdens not only challenge the time, energy, creativity and financial resources of hard-working employees, but carry over into the workplace as well and can negatively affect a business’s productivity and profitability. It makes good financial sense for concerned employers to help valuable employees lessen the stresses of caregiving responsibilities. Lending a helping hand is good for the employee and the employer.
How do employee caregiving responsibilities impact your business?
- Employees resign or retire early to become full-time caregivers
- Employees cut back their hours to better manage caregiving duties
- Employees are frequently absent from work to respond to care needs
- Employee “presenteeism” – employees are at work, but distracted by caregiving duties
- Lack of focus in the workplace
- Increased personal health problems for exhausted and stressed caregivers and increased health insurance costs for you
- Decreased morale of the caregiver’s coworkers who must pick up the slack in the workplace
- High frustration levels of the caregiving employee, his or her supervisor and coworkers
It is important to realize that your employees most likely to
experience personal health problems or to be caregivers for other
adults are those mid-career and above, the very people responsible for
the ongoing success of your business. They are your company’s most
skilled leaders and the most knowledgeable in its systems and
equipment. They have the most work experience and have developed solid
professional relationships with your customers and suppliers. Your
caregiving employees continue to care about the success of your
business and they still want to work hard for you. They simply need a
little help in fulfilling their equally important responsibilities to
family, or health responsibilities to themselves, and in finding a
work/family/caregiving balance.
E-Senior Services enables caring employers to help valued employees better meet their caregiving challenges.
Through our Caregiver Assistance Program, E-Senior Services offers easy-to-understand education on a number of frequently encountered elder care issues. Depending on the employer’s needs, we can bring live elder care classes into the workplace at times convenient for employer and employees. We also offer video classes through which employees participate in our elder care classes from the comfort of their homes or offices, at times convenient for them. E-Senior Services works with employers to develop customized educational programs suited to the needs, schedules and locations of their individual businesses.
Our new Verified Service Provider (VSP) Directory will give your employees access to local services and products for seniors and family caregivers. This directory, still in development and growing, only lists providers for whom we have reviewed licenses and insurance, where applicable, and for whom we have collected and displayed relevant information to help your employees quickly decide whether a provider fits their needs. Our VSP Directory is designed to increase the comfort level of users with its providers and products and to shorten the time your employees spend searching for a reputable provider of services or products.
When your caregiver employees become stressed by conflict within their families over elder care issues, our aging issues mediators can help them resolve family disagreements while preserving family relationships. AIM Aging Issues Mediation, a service of E-Senior Services, can help families really hear each other and create their own mutually agreeable solutions to family disputes. AIM Mediation can also help you resolve workplace disputes to preserve relationships between employees and between employee/employer.
Let E-Senior Services provide education and resources for your
employees that will enable them to improve their caregiving knowledge
and skills while they continue to be valuable and productive assets for
your business. Your employees and their families will benefit, as will
your business.
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