As part of the Northern Colorado Prospers Goal #2: Align, Attract and Retain Talent, the Chamber and it’s Talent 2.0 partners have made it a goal to “Collectively address structural issues that serve as barriers to a secure talent pipeline.”
As employers strategize the best ways to recruit, create employee incentives and provide opportunities, experts are encouraging employers to take a closer look at one certain pool of talent: parents reentering the workforce.
“When it comes to working families, employers and politicians tend to focus on new mothers and fathers. Yet parents who leave the workforce when their kids are young but later want to reenter it might be corporate America’s greatest untapped resource,” wrote Harvard Business Review author, Joanne Lipman, who recommends creating “returnships” and other ways of supporting these employees back to work.
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