Our clients include manufacturing firms, health insurers, software companies, universities, and hospitals. We provide consultation on:
- Work-life strategic planning
- Benchmarking studies
- Needs assessment surveys and feasibility studies
- Child care center consultation, including:
-design and start-up
-vendor review and selection
-equipment selection
-administrator recruitment
-tuition assistance planning- Dependent care collaboratives
- Child care resource and referral programs
- Flexible work arrangement programs
- Development of specialized child care services, including: back-up child care programs, programs for mildly ill children, vacation care for school-age children
Exemplary projects
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Mills Consulting Group has worked with BCBSMA extensively over the past 14 years. This work has included administering written and online surveys on work-life balance issues, providing manager training, introducing flexible work arrangements, and setting up a lactation room. Mills worked with BCBSMA to develop its current workplace child care center and conducted evaluations of the center’s programs. We also created a tuition assistance program for employees’ summer child care needs. Our most recent on-line needs assessment survey for BCBSMA employees determined their interest in various work-life initiatives including: continuation and/or expansion of on-site child care facilities, financial assistance for child are, emergency back-up child care, assistance finding child care, flexible work arrangements, elder care assistance, and a fitness center benefit.
BCBS has been named in Working Mother magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers, and is nationally recognized as a family-friendly place to work.
Reebok InternationalIn 1999 we began our consulting work with Reebok to assist them in decisions regarding organization and implementation of a high quality child care center for Reebok employees. We worked closely with both the Human Resources department and the Reebok Planning Group on all aspects of creating a new center, including architectural design, construction, determination of center size, and management model. We assisted them in thinking about criteria for choosing a vendor model, budget projections and sliding fee scales. The Reebok child care center successfully opened in September of 2003.
ARUP Laboratories
Mills Consulting Group recently completed a child care needs assessment and analysis of the 1,500 employees of ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City. The needs assessment survey tool was developed after examining the goals and objectives of the company and understanding the characteristics of the workforce. Upon the completion of data analysis, a comprehensive report was prepared providing a profile of all survey respondents, including those with children and those expecting to have a child in the next two years. Details about current child care usage (type of care, hours, tuition) and interest in various company-sponsored child care initiatives were also included. Recommendations for child care initiatives were made based on an analysis of the data and included action plans with associated start-up costs.
