Thursday, October 1, 2015

A Corporate Benefit for the New Era


A New Era Corporate Benefit Program That Will Save Employers Millions

There is no disputing the fact that the radically increasing numbers of ‘Boomers’ retiring is going to impact business and human resource management in ways yet unimagined. Today’s rate of ‘retiring Boomers’ is at 10,000 per day… and that daily number will continue to increase.

For employers this means that a steadily increasing number of workers will be ‘sandwiched’ between job demands and caring for aging parents. This trend will stress every organization. Already, absenteeism driven by ageing parental care is costing millions, as employees attend to the daily care demands of aging parents. Unexpected absences will not only stress employer productivity but the stress of giving this care will add additional health risks to an employee’s personal well-being, impacting the employee themselves, and thus adding to employer health costs as they attempt to balance and cope with the stress of aging parental care and their job demands.

Presenteesism” will escalate – employees seemingly present and on the job - but not really - due to attending to unanticipated care demands and unanticipated care driven distractions will also escalate.

Providing employees with a ‘care connectivity’ service would provide a win-win-win for everyone. A system that provides real time monitoring, oversight of care events and care activities and immediate connectivity to professional medical care such as doctors and home care providers and local services like taxi’s and groceries and plumbers would mean that (1) the aging parents would remain in constant touch, (2) employees would know exactly what’s going on and (3) employers would reduce absenteeism and presenteeism.

Provided as a service offered by employers this “benefit” would not only significantly enhance the employer/employee relationship but it would also provide a very valuable opportunity for building a corporate dialogue as part of an enlightened corporation’s culture, one that understands and has empathy about the ‘real world’ that employees are facing every day.

Human Resource professionals like it or not will be increasingly drawn into this fray. The numbers alone will demand a strategy. We at ChartaCares support human resources executives seeking to proactively respond with a care management system provided as a benefit…. one that delivers daily tangible benefit. With our system employees can more positively attend to the demands of both work and care in the new era of technology enabled healthcare.

See http://www.chartacares.com| Menu: Quality of Care | MyHomeReach to learn more or contact me directly at mike@chartacloud.com

 

 

 

 

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