The document discusses various personal services and family friendly benefits that companies provide to employees. These include credit unions that help with savings and loans, employee assistance programs for counseling and support services, and family friendly benefits like childcare, eldercare, fitness facilities, and flexible work arrangements. Flexible work arrangements can include flexible scheduling, compressed workweeks, job sharing, work sharing, and telecommuting. The presentation aims to outline these benefits and policies for the audience.

2. Presentation
On
Personal Services and
Family Friendly Benefits
Presented to:
Sir Ahmad Tisman Pasha
Presented by:
Muhammad Faheem-ul-Hassan
BIT -09-20 3rd semester

3. Personal services
Many companies provide the sorts of
personal services that most employees
need at one time or other. These include
credit unions. Legal services ,
counseling, and social and recreational
opportunities.

4. Credit Unions
 Credit unions are usually separate business
established with the employer’s assistance to help
employees with borrowing and saving needs.
 Employees usually become members by purchasing a
share of the credit union’s stock for a small fee–
perhaps $5 or $10.
 Members can then deposit saving that accrue interest
at a rate determined by the credit union’s board of
directors. Loan eligibility and the loan’s rate of
interest are usually more favorable than those of
banks and finance companies.

5. Employees Assistance
Program(EAP)
Employee assistance program provide
counseling and advisory services, such as
personal legal and financial services
, child and elder care referrals , adopting
assistance , mental health counseling, and
life event planning. EAPs are increasingly
popular , with more than 60% of larger
firms offering such programs

6. Develop a policy statement
Define the program’s purpose , employee
eligibility, the roles and responsibilities
of various personnel in the
organization, and procedure for using
plan.

7. Ensure professional staffing
Consider the professional and state
licensing requirements

8. Maintain confidential
record-keeping systems
Everyone involved with EAP, include
supervisors, secretaries ,and support
staff, must understand the importance
of confidentiality.

9. Be aware of legal issues
In most states counselors must disclose
suspicious of child abuse to appropriate
state agencies. Get legal advice on
established the EAP, carefully screen the
credentials of the EAP staff, and obtain
professional liability insurance for the
EAP

10. Family –Friendly Benefits
 Benefits such as child care and fitness
facilities that make it easier for employs
to balance their work and family
responsibilities.
 It balancing the pressure of work and
family life

11. Family-Friendly Benefits
 On-site or subsidized child care
 Elder care
 Fitness and medical facilities
 Food services
 Flexible work scheduling
 Telecommuting
 Educational subsidies
 Loan programs for home office equipment

12. Flexible Benefits Programs
The cafeteria (flexible benefits)
approach
 Each employee is given a benefits fund
budget to spend on the benefits he or she
prefers.
 The fund limits the total cost for each
benefits package.
 Core plus option plans establish a core
set of benefits which are mandatory for
all employees.

13. Flexible spending accounts
 Enable employees to pay for medical and
other expenses with pretax dollars by
depositing funds in their accounts from
payroll deductions

14. Flexible Work Arrangements
Flextime
 A plan whereby employees’
workdays are built around a core
of mid-day hours when all
workers are required to be
present.
 Workers can arrange their own
starting and stopping hours
before and after the core period.

15. Positive effects on employee
productivity, job
satisfaction, satisfaction with work
schedule, and employee absenteeism.
 Positive effect on absenteeism was
much greater than on productivity.

16. Flexible Work Arrangements
 Compressed workweeks
 Increase productivity
• Less disruption from shift
changes
• Longer time-off-work periods
• Reduced absenteeism

17.  Longer workdays; fewer
workdays:
• Four-day workweeks, with four 10-
hour days.
• Two days on, two days off, three
days on, then two days off, two
days on, and so forth.
• Three 12-hour shifts, and then off
for the next four days.

18. Other Flexible Work
Arrangements
 Job sharing
Allowing two or more people
to share a single full-time
job

19.  Work sharing
A temporary reduction in work hours
by a group of employees during
economic downturns as a way to
prevent layoffs.

20. Telecommuting
Employees work at home using
telephones and the Internet to
transmit letters, data, and
completed work to the home o