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Family Forward Montana is part of the National Best Place for Working Parents® network, offering real-time designations to businesses of all sizes whose family-friendly policies qualify through a first-of-its-kind, 3-minute online self-assessment. Best Place for Working Parents® Montana offers local business leaders the opportunity to instantly determine whether their organization qualifies to earn a Best Place for Working Parents® designation, positioning them among the leading family-friendly businesses in the U.S.

The confidential online business self-assessment allows businesses of all sizes tout innovative practices that are helping today’s working parents provide for their families and adapt and thrive at work during extraordinary times. The Best Place for Working Parents® assessment highlights only the top 10 research-backed policies proven to benefit working parents AND businesses’ bottom line.

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.

· 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.

Achieve 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.