Workforce shortage: Missoula’s Adventure Life travel company offers paid maternity leave to keep workers

Adventure Life http://www.adventure-life.com/ general manager Jonathan Brunger and CEO Brian Morgan have realized that because their company of 25 employees is 80 percent female – including many mothers and expecting moms – a robust maternity leave policy could help everyone.

A Missoula-based adventure travel company has found that rather than relying on an antiquated model of simply replacing workers who quit for various reasons, it is better for the long-term health – both financially and literally – of the company and employees to try to retain workers for as long as possible. To do that, they are using a variety of incentives and creative benefits.

Adventure Life recently implemented an extremely progressive paid maternity leave policy, which essentially gives new mothers four weeks of paid absence. The bonus is paid out over the course of six months after an employee has returned to work and resumes a minimum average of 25 hours per week, and workers are eligible after they have been employed there full time for three years.

DAVID ERICKSON [email protected]

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