In addition to serving private families, Let Mommy Sleep offers overnight newborn care and in-home postpartum visits to companies. Postpartum benefits go beyond parental leave by prioritizing employee welfare upon returning to work. This blog, Corporations: We Will Be Your New Best Friends details the innovative package companies can add to employee benefits program.
Corporations: We Will Be Your New Best Friends - newborn care as an employee benefit
Home Visits by a Registered Maternity Nurse after new parents arrive home with baby, and night nanny care provide education, support and restorative sleep to brand new moms and dads during their vulnerable first weeks home. These services ensure vital early intervention opportunities and help employees who've just become new parents remain healthy and present upon returning to work.
Postpartum care services are meaningful, measurable wellness benefits for employees and companies alike. Corporations: We Will Be Your New Best Friends - newborn care as an employee benefit means companies will see the following results:
Competitive Advantage in Recruiting
Businesses hiring for specialized positions are often competing with each other among the same pool of applicants. The position's pay and healthcare are naturally factors in an applicant's decision but more recently, so is the feeling that companies actually care by offering substantial benefits (Gallop, 2021).
Retain Top Talent
Asha Santos, partner at Littler Mendelson P.C., advises corporations on employment law and respect in the workplace. Her work and data shows that “How a woman is treated in the months leading up to her maternity leave, and then during leave, and shortly thereafter when she returns to work will determine whether or not a company will be able to retain her.”
Sensible Use of Funds
The postpartum employee benefit care program costs $100 - $1440 per employee welcoming a child. It's important to remember that this amount is spent for those becoming parents, not for the entire workforce. This is substantially lower than the cost of lost productivity due to sleep deprivation (Harvard Medical School, 2011).
Additionally implementation of Let Mommy Sleep's postpartum benefit program means retaining employees, a considerably lower expense than replacing them.
Corporations: We Will Be Your New Best Friends - Benefits to the Franchisee
On the franchise level, offering "group-style" baby nurse care allows for greater marketing opportunities and loyal client retention. Advertising overnight newborn care to companies as well as individuals means franchisees have the chance to use their budgets for greater reach and maintain happy customers for years. Additionally, local franchises become an integral part of their community...which is good for everyone.