Comments on: Babies at Work

By: Tassilyn

Tassilyn — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:01:34 +0000

I feel so much happier now I unedrstnad all this. Thanks!

By: Carla Moquin

Carla Moquin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:41:00 +0000

Sorry–I should have said great article; I didn’t initially understand where the piece had appeared (the company you featured just emailed me about your piece). By the way, our Institute website contains lots of template documents and other resources to help businesses to implement successful babies-at-work programs:

http://www.parentingatwork.org/help.html

Carla

By: Carla Moquin

Carla Moquin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:26:16 +0000

Dr. Erickson,

I’m the founder and president of the Parenting in the Workplace Institute (we maintain the Babies in the Workplace website you referenced in your blog). I wanted to comment on one thing you mentioned–that we don’t talk about hard data on the website. You’re right–unfortunately, there have been very few formal studies of these programs, and so our analysis of the benefits (and parameters for success) is based on hundreds of interviews of people at baby-friendly organizations (and a few organizations in which this concept was not successful because it wasn’t set up properly). However, we are hoping to seek funding in the near future to start coordinating numerous formal studies (we have a number of academics who are eager to do research in this area) so that we have the data to ascertain the effects of these programs more conclusively (and to determine how to make the programs more effective).

Thanks for such a great blog on this topic!

Carla Moquin