Direct childcare and programs that make family care responsibilities easier to achieve come in many different forms in the public institutions and private companies that are taking on the more responsibility for helping their employees with work-family issues. For instance, “some organizations directly subsidize daycare centres or private home daycare placements. Others underwrite the cost
Employee assistance programs involve giving confidential advice on personal, family and other employee problems, usually through an independent third party. EAPs are designed to deal with the fact that “an estimated 68% of all employees will, at some time, experience workplace problems severe enough to see them struggle and fail to cope with day-to-day performance
A health promotion program’s main concern is “health promotion and preventative medicine rather than treatment,” which is the focus of an EAP (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 3, page 41). An HPP tends to “employ different professionals [than an EAP]: recreation therapists, vocational counsellors and nutritionists as distinct from psychologists, social workers and
