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HR Works Podcast: Parents Are Returning to Work…How Can We Help Them Stay?

HR Daily Advisor | In the latest episode of the HR Works Podcast, Sadie Funk and Sara Redington, leaders from The Best Place for Working Parents, joins to discuss some of the latest workforce trends and their impact on the working parent population.  As members of an expanding national network of business leaders committed to […]

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Best Place for Working Parents launches National Innovator Awards program

Fort Worth Report | Best Place for Working Parents has launched its National Innovator Awards Program. During the grand opening of the Tyson Foods Learning Center in Humboldt, Tennessee, Tyson Foods was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Best Place for Working Parents® National Innovator Award: Onsite Child Care. This distinguished recognition celebrates Tyson Foods’ […]

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Tyson holds ribbon cutting for new childcare facility

Tyson Foods has officially opened their new childcare facility. This is right next to their poultry processing complex. The Tyson Learning Center offers greater access to childcare for the team members. “Here at the plant we listen to our team members and realized they needed help with childcare. Our great State of Tennessee was such […]

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2023 Best Place for Working Parents® National Summit Recap

  2023 Best Place for Working Parents® National Summit Recap Video

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Women feeling brunt of post pandemic stress amid economic uncertainty

  NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas) – A global pandemic and the ensuing economic uncertainty have made the last few years hard on everyone, but study after study has found women are feeling the brunt of the stress. “We know women are taking on the lion’s share of household work and childcare responsibilities and that takes a mental […]

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Fort Worth businesses with family-friendly policies boost profits, experts say

More than 200 business leaders gathered for the Best Place for Working Parents National Summit on May 4, 2023. MATTHEW SHELLEY Family-friendly practices will be at the center of a successful American economy in the long term, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker says. “There is truthfully no more important time in this country than right […]

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A more family-friendly workplace? Summit speakers tout solutions in Fort Worth

Molly Schnettler of PepsiCo, left, Walter Reynolds of the Reynolds Company and Julianne Galloway of AT&T chat during a panel discussion during the Best Place for Working PArents National Summit in Hotel Drover in the Stockyards.   Julianne Galloway wants her employees to care for their families. Galloway, AT&T’s vice president of global benefits, searches […]

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Fortune 500 Leaders Gather in Fort Worth, Texas to Set the Precedent of Support for Working Parents at Second Annual Best Place for Working Parents® National Summit

Mayor Mattie Parker speaks to the audience of business leaders at the 2022 Best Place for Working Parents National Summit. Speakers from Indeed, AT&T, PepsiCo, Tyson, Accenture, and more, will share their strategies for building a stronger workforce through family-friendly and business-friendly initiatives. FORT WORTH, Texas, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — This week, May 3-5, 2023, hundreds of Fortune […]

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We are all in the child care business

National headlines are shining a spotlight on the child care crisis. Once a topic at many dinner tables, child care access and affordability are now the centerpieces of a national conversation about the economy. We’re still talking about it at the dinner table, too. Parents are worried about balancing concerns of income loss and career […]

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The need for talent retention is leading to onsite child care for some companies

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