Authors:

  • Joseph B. Fuller

Abstract

January, 2024, Paper. "America’s long-simmering caregiving crisis has become the focus of active debate in the post-COVID-19 era. Many employees today face the difficult trade-off of balancing the responsibilities of work and caring for a loved one. Such conflicting obligations affect more employees than one might think—three out of four U.S. workers have caregiving roles—and the vast majority indicate that family needs undermine their productivity at work.1 The growing demands on caregivers have ominous implications for companies, negatively affecting their day-to-day productivity and imposing significant financial costs on employers. Companies also stress the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified talent, due in part to the impact of barriers to workforce participation raised by caregiving responsibilities. Yet companies have historically ignored this caregiving crisis."