Maine is proud to be a Best Place for Working Parents®

Create meaningful impact for your workforce while enhancing your business results

The Best Place for Working Parents® offers a 3-minute online self-assessment that highlights the top 10 research-backed policies that benefit working parents and businesses’ bottom line.

Working parents can thrive in Maine

Maine State Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Best Place for Working Parents® to bring the businesses of Maine innovative workplace solutions for the working parents and families in their workforces.

We’re a national network of innovators dedicated to proving family-friendly is business-friendly

The Best Place for Working Parents® is a growing national network of business leaders utilizing a first-of-its-kind online business self-assessment that highlights the top 10 family-friendly policies proven to benefit working parents AND businesses’ bottom line. Our policies are relevant to businesses of every size and industry, and include low- or no-cost options that are proven to boost employee attraction, retention, loyalty, productivity, and engagement – a win-win for working parents and the businesses that employ them.

The importance of family-friendly

75%

of the workers in today’s workforce are caregivers

83%

of millennials will leave one job for another with stronger family-friendly supports

6-9

months of salary is the cost of replacing a employee

A Best Place for Working Parents® designation can help your company gain and retain top industry talent

Short, free, and confidential self-assessment

Through a short, free, and confidential online self-assessment, businesses can see if they qualify for a Best Place for Working Parents® designation AND view how their company compares to other companies of like size and industry.

Achieving the Best Place designation

Businesses that achieve the Best Place for Working Parents® designation through the online self-assessment will be presented with digital badging to tout as their business as a “Best Place for Working Parents®” via their website, social media, and in print.

Highlighting proven policies

The assessment highlights only the family-friendly policies that also have research-proven benefit to businesses’ bottom line. Each question in the self-assessment ties to policies that positively impact employee attraction, retention, satisfaction and productivity.

Boost your marketing and recruiting efforts

The Best Place for Working Parents® designation is a quick way to boost your marketing and retention efforts to ensure you attract and keep top talent that ensures your business success.