Exciting changes ahead! As of the 2024 award year, we’re making improvements to our Family Friendly Business Award® program. While earning the award remains FREE, we’re introducing a sliding scale fee for optional digital and physical assets. This fee covers program enhancements, application costs and more. NEW Recognition Opportunities! Building a Stronger New Mexico Together. New Mexico’s business community has always had a heart for its employees and a passion for economic growth. At Family Friendly New Mexico (FFNM), we firmly believe that when businesses invest in the welfare of their teams, they, in turn, thrive! Over the past few … Read More
Making an Impact Series | Business Success
DJ Heckes, CEO of Exhib-It!, a Gold level award recipient of the 2020 Family Friendly Business Award™, recognizes the impact that family friendly policies such as predictable scheduling and flex time have on the success and profitability of her business. Employers often cite the cost of adopting family friendly policies to their businesses, but research has shown that costs for adding family friendly policies are more than made up for by higher productivity, reduced employee turnover (which means lower costs for training and recruiting), improved ability to recruit more qualified employees as well as increased job satisfaction and morale. The … Read More
Making an Impact Series | Work Schedules
How U.S. Eagle Federal Credit Union retains qualified employees and leads with policies that put their employees at the center of their business model. Family friendly policies in the workplace can look different for every business. Often, businesses tend to follow the same model with the same policies and structure for their employees for many years. It’s important to continuously evaluate policies for their effectiveness in building a strong workforce that enhances the strengths of the business. Sharing how businesses have cultivated these policies as a structure to build on makes our family friendly business community stronger and more knowledgeable. … Read More
Making an Impact Series | Paid Leave
How Albuquerque Plumbing Heating and Cooling amplifies policies such as paid leave to generate company culture and employee satisfaction. More than ever businesses are looking to each other as well as leaders within the business community to learn strategies that help to retain employees and sustain their financial stability and growth. Over the next few weeks we will be spotlighting three of our awardees and sponsors that really put in the hard work to make sure that even during a time of crisis, their commitment to family friendly policies is crucial to the success of their business and employees. These … Read More
Virtual Awards Event Highlights
We are so grateful for the overwhelming support we received from all of our Family Friendly NM community! This includes so many of you that we want to dedicate this week’s blog post to extending the celebration of our 5-year anniversary by featuring highlights from our virtual event. Our virtual awards event held on Thursday, June 11th recognized all of our awardees that purchased tickets to this year’s Family Friendly Business Awards Luncheon. We recognized our event sponsors and supporters, 5- and 6-year returning awardees, welcomed special guests and brought the family friendly business community together in a fun and … Read More