Caregiving Challenges
Caregiver
This has a real impact on your workforce:
•20 percent of female caregivers between 18 and 39 said that stress was nearly always present in their lives.
•77 percent of caregivers report missing work to provide care for a loved one.
•52 percent report having to work fewer hours.
•Half felt that caregiving had negatively impacted their career.
•Caregivers are more likely to have emotional, physical and financial challenges and reduced productivity at work.
•Non-caregivers will experience an increased workload when coworkers must leave or miss work to manage an emergency or sudden illness.
•Stress from an employed caregiver can spread to others.
•Managers not trained to recognize and support caregiver challenges can make the problem worse.
You should start measuring these trends in your own business — perhaps up to 6 hours, a week is a fair amount of employee’s time to be focused on care needs. If you understand when that line is crossed, they effectively become dual employees of the healthcare system and your company!
•20 percent of female caregivers between 18 and 39 said that stress was nearly always present in their lives.
•77 percent of caregivers report missing work to provide care for a loved one.
•52 percent report having to work fewer hours.
•Half felt that caregiving had negatively impacted their career.
•Caregivers are more likely to have emotional, physical and financial challenges and reduced productivity at work.
•Non-caregivers will experience an increased workload when coworkers must leave or miss work to manage an emergency or sudden illness.
•Stress from an employed caregiver can spread to others.
•Managers not trained to recognize and support caregiver challenges can make the problem worse.
You should start measuring these trends in your own business — perhaps up to 6 hours, a week is a fair amount of employee’s time to be focused on care needs. If you understand when that line is crossed, they effectively become dual employees of the healthcare system and your company!