The designation with immediate results & impact
Earn a competitive advantage to help your business gain and retain top talent
The confidential Best Place for Working Parents® self-assessment results provide real-time insights on how your company’s family-friendly supports compare to other businesses of like size and industry.
About the Best Place for Working Parents® designation
The first-of-its-kind, 3-minute online Best Place for Working Parents® self-assessment was developed together with 100 business leaders in Fort Worth, HR and technology consultants, and university researchers in 2019.
Today, the designation is offered to businesses in our activated regions across the country. The assessment highlights only the family-friendly policies that also have research-proven benefit to businesses’ bottom line, with each question tying to policies that positively impact employee attraction, retention, satisfaction and productivity.
Businesses that achieve the Best Place for Working Parents® designation through the online self-assessment instantaneously receive digital badging and PR messaging in order for them to tout and display their designation via their website, on social media, on window decals, and/or in print.
You’re only a few steps away from designation
An executive familiar with your company’s HR policies (and with an official company email) who can spend three minutes to fill out the self-assessment on their phone or computer.
Our free and confidential online self-assessment will ask you questions about whether your company offers each of the top 10 research-backed policies.
The dashboard of your results will instantaneously reveal whether your company gained the Best Place for Working Parents® designation, and show how your company fares against other businesses of like size and industry across each of the 10 policies.
Whether or not you gained the Best Place for Working Parents® designation, you are invited to peruse our resources that have been carefully cultivated together with our national network to help companies of every size and industry customize the best family-friendly solutions for their unique workforce needs.
If your company earns the Best Place for Working Parents® designation, you will instantly receive:
- The Best Place for Working Parents designation badge to use for recruiting
- A full report detailing how your policy implementation measures up against businesses of like size & industry
- Eligibility to be listed among our prestigious list of designated business
- Eligibility to be considered for a regional and/or national Innovator Award
- Eligibility to join the Best Place LinkedIn group to connect to the national network for invaluable insights & shared ideas.
Not in a designated region?
Reach out to our National Director, Sadie Funk, to pursue a Best Place for Working Parents® partnership for your region!
“We believe a career is a tangible way to share your talents and gifts with the world. A career is a part of your life’s journey – it should be something you are proud of, something that supports you along the way, and most importantly, something that is aligned with your values and goals in life. Businesses like ours have the responsibility and privilege to be change agents, transforming social paradigms, modeling ethical practices, and fostering a family-friendly culture that benefits us all.”
– Jessica Miller Essl, CEO, M2G Ventures
“At Trademark, we believe that supporting working parents is essential to enhancing the well-being of our team members. This award reflects our dedication to fostering a work environment where parents can thrive, both personally and professionally, and we’re honored to be recognized for our efforts in implementing family-friendly practices.”
– Terry Montesi, Founder & CEO, Trademark Property Company
“Investing in work-life balance is not just a benefit for our employees—it’s a cornerstone of our success. When our team feels supported in their personal lives, they bring their best selves to work .”
– Jason Harvison, CEO, Elevate
Businesses are loving the Best Place designation
How many questions do I have to get right in order to gain the designation?
The self-assessment technology and designation results are part of a proprietary formula Best Place for Working Parents® customized based on company size. There are a multitude of ways every sized business can gain the designation, so there are not any “must have” policies but rather multiple pathways to earning the designation based on how many employees a company has.
What happens if I don’t qualify for a Best Place for Working Parents® designation?
Your dashboard of results is completely confidential and only accessible to you and the Best Place for Working Parents® team.
You are able to take the self-assessment multiple times in one year, so as policies shift or change, you are able to re-take the assessment to see if your business policy changes earn you the designation.
How can I promote my company’s Best Place for Working Parents® designation?
We have both traditional and sample social media posts we are glad to provide. Email Sadie@bestplace4workingparents.com for access to any and all promotional materials you may need.