Walla Walla 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 Walla Walla

The Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Best Place for Working Parents® to bring the businesses of the Walla Walla 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.