For Companies
Your employees are carrying a second job. Your business is feeling the cost.
Crisis Navigations gives companies a concrete resource to share when an employee becomes a caregiver, receives a diagnosis, loses a parent, or takes on unfamiliar family responsibilities. Practical guidance for what comes next.
What one employee may be carrying
Alongside their full-time job:
- Managing appointments
- Researching care options
- Finding documents
- Coordinating family members
- Making unfamiliar decisions
Why companies should pay attention
Published research gives a sense of the scale. These are research figures, not a survey of any particular employer.
1 in 5
full-time employees provides care for an adult family member or friend outside their paid job.1
60%
of caregivers experience disruption to their work.1
$6,404
estimated combined annual cost per employed caregiver: $5,281 in reduced productivity while at work, plus $1,123 in absence-related costs.2
~$1.28M
illustration for a 1,000-employee company: 20% caregivers times $6,404 per caregiver per year.2
Sources: 1. Rosalynn Carter Institute, Working While Caring. 2. Rosalynn Carter Institute, Invisible Overtime (2022), page 7, using a $25 hourly wage assumption. Figures are published research estimates and represent averages; the $1.28 million figure is an illustration that combines separate historical estimates. Actual impact varies by organization, and these figures are not measured company losses, recoverable savings, or proof of return on investment.
Situations your people may be facing
Each situation has a guide built for exactly that moment, so employees start with what is in front of them.
Caring for an aging parent or loved one
The Caregiver Planner™
A parent's dementia diagnosis
The Dementia Companion Guide™
Preparing for a hospital stay
The Hospital Go Bag Planner™
Their own or a loved one's cancer diagnosis
The Cancer Care Binder™
Supporting a surviving parent
When One Parent Passes™
Handling responsibilities after a death
After a Death™
Being named executor
The Executor's Guide™
Rebuilding after divorce
The Divorce Recovery Planner™
Organizing information their family may need
The Estate Organizer Guide™
An unexpected family crisis
The Crisis Binder™
These needs reach employees across generations. Gen X is often the most visible audience, but employer support should reach anyone facing these situations.
What makes the guides useful
The value is the thinking and organization behind the guidance.
A starting point
Employees can begin with the situation in front of them.
An order for next steps
Understand what needs attention now and what can wait.
The reasons behind the steps
Understand why something matters, not just what to do.
Questions they might not know to ask
Prepare for conversations with care providers, family members, and qualified professionals.
A structure they can return to
Continue working through the situation as circumstances change.
What that looks like inside a guide
When One Parent Passes™: "What did Mom or Dad always take care of?"
Helps identify responsibilities the surviving parent may suddenly need help managing.
Senior community questions: overnight staffing, call-button response, and changing care needs
Gives employees specific questions to investigate beyond appearances and amenities.
The Caregiver Planner™: Caregiver Check-In and "Don't Disappear from Your Own Life"
Reminds employees that their own appointments, responsibilities, and needs belong in the plan.
The Executor's Guide™: review what still depends on an account before canceling it
Prompts employees to consider access, records, communications, and other dependencies before acting.
Specific examples like these show the product more effectively than a general promise to reduce stress.
Guidance, plus a place to work through it
The guide helps employees understand what to do. Side by Side™ gives them a place to work through it.
The paired workspace keeps their answers, contacts, decisions, tasks, and progress together. For example, the guide suggests questions about a senior community's overnight staffing. Side by Side™ gives the employee somewhere to record the answers and track follow-up questions.
For an employer, the combined value is practical guidance plus a personal record of what comes next.
Private to each employee
Everything an employee enters stays within their own private account. An employer can offer the resource without ever seeing an individual's entries. Sharing is always the employee's choice, never automatic.
Practical ways to support your people
A guide is most useful when employees can also find the company's existing benefits and practical workplace support. Here are approaches worth exploring together.
Make resources easy to find
Include a situation-based link in your benefits portal or employee resource directory.
Help at the moment of need
Give HR and managers a short resource card for caregiving, hospitalization, diagnosis, loss, and executor responsibilities.
Offer financial support for access
Explore employer-funded access or reimbursement through a defined commercial arrangement.
Support caregiver communities
Demonstrate the Guides and Side by Side™ through an employee caregiver group or educational session.
Help employees prepare ahead
Introduce hospital preparation and estate information organization before an urgent event.
Connect existing benefits
Present the Guides alongside employee assistance, counseling, care navigation, and professional services.
Support managers
Provide language for offering help without requesting personal family details.
Pair resources with workplace support
Combine the Guides with schedule flexibility, workload coverage, and clear routes to HR.
Start with a pilot, and measure usefulness first
Before anything else, we want to know whether it actually helps. A first pilot asks the questions that matter, and the answers shape what comes next.
- Could employees find a relevant guide?
- Did it help them identify a next step?
- Did it surface a question they had not considered?
- Did Side by Side™ help them keep important information organized?
- Would they use it again or recommend it?
A stronger, more supported workforce starts here.
Tell us about your team and we will suggest a practical way to start.