OUR WORK
Working While Caring
1 in 5 full-time employees provides care for someone who is aging, ill, or disabled outside of their paid job. Despite the universality of the family caregiving experience, there are few evidence-based solutions to help them balance the responsibilities of work and care.
OUR WORK
Working While Caring
RCI is changing that.
1 in 5 full-time employees provides care for someone who is aging, ill, or disabled outside of their paid job. Despite the universality of the family caregiving experience, there are few evidence-based solutions to help them balance the responsibilities of work and care.
The Cost of Caregiving
60%
of caregivers
experience work disruption
3.2
Work Days a Month
missed by caregiver employees
1/3
OF CAREGIVER EMPLOYEES
have had to leave a job because of caregiving
Employers are Part of the Solution
In this brief video, you will get a crash course on what it means to be Working While Caring, and why it matters to employers.
We’re on a Mission to Help Employers Help Their Caregivers
Working While Caring (WWC) fills critical gaps in the caregiver-employee experience through research, communications, and employer engagement. We work with employers to explore the effects, challenges, and opportunities facing family caregivers in the workplace.
We develop and implement pilot interventions so employers are better prepared to support caregiver employees. To provide customized solutions, our expert team provides individual consultation, from facilitating conversations to technical assistance to meet unique needs being faced by workplaces.
Lasting change will need to happen at a structural level. RCI partners with employers to call for public policy changes at the state and federal levels so that family caregivers across the nation have workplace policies and practices that meet their needs.
Employee Resources
Innovations and Interventions to to Support Caregivers in the Workplace
