Trend Results and Discussion

Benefits for Families + Professional Development Poll Results

Does your firm actively provide support for you to grow professionally?

If yes: Internally, externally, or both?

As firms were encouraging safer at home practices, it left individuals with more time spent with family and less opportunities for professional development in the workplace.

The analysis from the February Chapter Meeting noted the need for clearer family leave policies, stronger health benefits, and greater access to educational opportunities.

The polling questions were created with the intention of understanding how firms have supported professional development in women and cared for, not only the individual, but the family through this unprecedented era.

Many of the items discussed were based on company policies which led the committee to engage a human resource professional as a guest speaker. Heather Sells is a CPA and Assistant Controller at TMPartners and contributed to the discussion regarding government standards and mandates.