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Child Care Benefits and Employee Retention

Lead Change Blog

Most working parents now make their career decisions based on the child care benefits they can get. Child care benefits are more of an investment than an expense since it lowers turnover rates, raises morale, and avoids employee absenteeism due to childcare. So, just how expensive is child care? Flexibility.

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What Corporations Can Learn From a 4,000-Person Parade Extravaganza (Seriously)

Harvard Business Review

All this in Brazil, a country where women are known to have much slower and shorter corporate careers than men, and where black directors are vanishingly rare in larger corporations. With each onslaught, migrants may see their affective bonds severed. Recent rural migrants end up in the slums of Rio, São Paulo, Mumbai, or Nairobi.

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?47 Warnings & Ways to Improve Employee Morale & Performance

Miles Anthony Smith

Whether it be a private conversation at the start of the day, taking them out to lunch or even a beer after work, [it] helps keep that bond. 59% of men and 56% of women say that career advancement is ‘ extremely important ’ or ‘ very important ’ to them. Leads to minimal absenteeism ​ 17.

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