Even if your staffing liability insurance clients usually make every effort to ensure their offices offer a professional and supportive environment for all employees, they may still have questions about what they can do to help support the women in their workplace. Ensuring women employees have equal professional opportunities and feel at ease in the office is important for any business and can go a long way in strengthening the company’s culture and improving its reputation. Ways to support women in the workplace can vary widely, but here are just a few of the top tips you can offer to your clients.
Provide a Number of Key Support Perks and Benefits
One of the most straightforward yet most effective ways your clients can easily support the women in their offices is to provide comprehensive benefits plans, as well as a range of additional perks for loyal, long-time employees. These benefits are usually centered on paid time off and healthcare benefits, both of which can allow women employees, and particularly those with children, much-needed flexibility. Your clients can offer a standard benefits package or tailor each one to every employee’s number of years at the company. Some common benefits they may want to include encompass the following.
- Paid sick leave
- Unlimited paid time off
- On-site childcare options
- Health insurance
- Vision and dental insurance
Offer Employees Greater Everyday and Long-Term Work Flexibility
All employees, women included, could generally benefit from greater independence and work flexibility. Your clients may want to consider changing strict office rules to better accommodate a greater range of employee needs. For instance, allowing employees to work remotely a few times a week may be helpful. Your clients could consider providing:
- Remote or hybrid work options
- Flexible work hours or scheduling
- Greater understanding of non-work responsibilities
Create a More Encouraging and Supportive Workplace Culture
Lastly, nothing replaces a supportive workplace culture. Encourage your clients to do all they can to foster a friendly, open and encouraging atmosphere at their offices. It’s important for all employees to be positive towards each other and collaborative with each other. A welcoming and team-oriented environment may be motivating and encouraging for all women in the workplace. Your clients can help create a pleasant work environment for all by offering:
- Employee trainings
- Posted signs stating company policies
- Company retreats and parties for team-building
When your staffing liability insurance clients come to you with pressing questions about what they need to do to help support women in their workplace, simply pull out this quick guide. By offering key benefits, providing greater work flexibility and promoting a healthy office culture, your clients can offer support to women employees while bolstering a professional work environment and improving their corporate reputation at the same time.
About World Wide Specialty Programs
For the last 50 years, World Wide Specialty Programs has dedicated itself to providing the optimal products and solutions for the staffing industry. As the only insurance firm to be an ASA commercial liability partner, we are committed to that partnership and committed to using our knowledge of the industry to provide staffing firms with the best possible coverage. For more information about Staffing Professional Liability Insurance or any other coverage, we have available to protect your staffing business, give us a call at (877) 256-0468 to speak with one of our representatives.