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|
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