Infants in the Workplace

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2017

The Boulder County Infants at Work Program was created to give new parents and legal guardians of infants the ability to bring infants to work up until the time the infant becomes mobile. The purpose is to help employees maintain a healthy work/life balance, increase morale, improve employee retention, and affirm the county’s commitment to being a family-friendly workplace. The program also supports long-term infant-parent bonding and helps with retention of employees who might otherwise feel it necessary to leave the workforce in order to care for an infant. The program begins once all paid Parental Leave and Family Medical Leave has been exhausted. Since the program was implemented in the fall of 2016, 19 infants have successfully been integrated into the Boulder County workforce. The Boulder County employee workforce of roughly 2,500 staff members typically has 50 new births annually.