{"id":4756,"date":"2025-04-22T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/about\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:33:04","slug":"working-caregivers-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/about\/working-caregivers-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden strain behind America\u2019s workforce burnout: Caregiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The workplace wasn&rsquo;t built for the realities of today&rsquo;s working families, and it&rsquo;s starting to catch up with us. Across the country, people are holding down full-time jobs while acting as caregivers for children, aging parents, and other loved ones&ndash;often with little support or acknowledgement. These dual roles aren&rsquo;t new, but what&rsquo;s changed is the scale, the stakes and the silence.<\/p><p>America&rsquo;s population is rapidly aging. Child care costs are outpacing inflation. And societal support systems&ndash;like national care policies and infrastructure&ndash;are outdated and fraying. At the same time, the expectations of work haven&rsquo;t softened. The result? A national workforce stretched thin, quietly burning out behind the scenes.<\/p><p>Our recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/business\/reports\/2025-future-of-benefits-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 Future of Benefits Report<\/a> reveals the toll this pressure is taking on employees and the businesses they power. Burnout is pervasive, yet it&rsquo;s being underestimated. <strong>Employers believe 45% of their workforce is at risk of burnout. The real number, according to employees themselves? 69%.<\/strong> That gap has consequences.<\/p><p>Caregiving is at the center of this. Of the employees who pay for family care, a staggering 83% say the burden of balancing care and their career directly increases their risk of burnout. These are not isolated cases. They are systematic signals that, too often, go unseen&ndash;out of fear, stigma, or the belief that asking for help will be seen as a weakness. When this is left unspoken and unsupported, it doesn&rsquo;t just affect the individual but reverberates across the entire organization.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-care-is-unsupported-companies-lose-people\">When care is unsupported, companies lose people<\/h2><p>Employers say their number one benefits goal is retaining talent. But burnout&ndash;particularly among caregivers&ndash;is standing in the way.<\/p><p>Caregiving stress isn&rsquo;t just a personal hardship, it&rsquo;s a business risk.<strong> Nearly 1 in 5 employees say they&rsquo;ve left a job because their employer didn&rsquo;t offer child or senior care benefits.<\/strong> Approximately just as many say they&rsquo;d consider leaving for a company that does. The message is clear: when employees feel unsupported in their caregiving responsibilities, they start looking for a way out. In a labor market where skilled workers are hard to find and harder to keep, that&rsquo;s a wake up call for any employer focused on long-term stability.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-return-on-care-is-real-and-in-reach\">The return on care is real and in reach<\/h2><p>Here&rsquo;s the good news: By recognizing this gap, we can close it. Our report shows that when employers provide caregiving support, the payoff is measurable.<\/p><p>Employees who have access to care benefits report profound improvement in their lives, <strong>including lower stress, better mental health, improved productivity, and more time with their families. <\/strong>Plus, with the exorbitant cost of care, the financial impact cannot be understated. Employees with access to child care or senior care benefits report <strong>saving nearly $1,000 per year on each type of care<\/strong>&ndash;money that can make a difference between staying or stepping away.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Employers feel the difference too. <strong>With access to care benefits, employees report higher work productivity and lower absenteeism&ndash;two key areas that impact a company&rsquo;s bottom line.<\/strong> In fact, four in five employers believe their company&rsquo;s profitability would rise by at least 25% if no employees were at risk of burning out. So, family care support that alleviates this burnout is more than a perk&ndash;it&rsquo;s a path to a healthier, more engaged and loyal workforce that fuels long-term business success.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-we-have-to-face-this-reality-together\">We have to face this reality&ndash;together<\/h2><p>Caregiving isn&rsquo;t a niche issue&ndash;it&rsquo;s a national one, touching nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2024\/11\/your-employees-are-also-caregivers-heres-how-to-support-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three-quarters<\/a> of the workforce. With its omnipresent nature, employers and employees agree that caregiving can&rsquo;t be ignored and companies have a role to play. So, the question isn&rsquo;t <em>if<\/em> we should step up. It&rsquo;s <em>how<\/em> we will get there.<\/p><p>At Care.com, we believe employers shouldn&rsquo;t have to navigate this alone. Through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Care for Business<\/a>, our enterprise division, we help employers turn the shared understanding into action. With the right support, burnout doesn&rsquo;t have to be part of the job description. Let&rsquo;s create workplaces where care and career can flourish, side by side.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncover the growing impact of caregiving on the workforce and what employers can do today to support their employees more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1440,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":true,"care_updated_date":"2025-04-22 00:00:00","last_update":"2025-04-22","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,35,17,38,31,32],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care-economy","tag-care-economy","tag-child-care","tag-childcare","tag-employee-benefits","tag-family-care","tag-senior-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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