One in seven of your employees is juggling their job with looking after an ageing relative. Many cut their hours, step back, or leave — often without anyone in the business knowing why. Folkwell helps you support them, and keep them.
Sources: Census 2021 / Carers UK, Facts About Carers 2025
Caring for an ageing parent rarely comes with a conversation at work. It shows up later, as lost focus, dropped hours, and quiet resignations from people you'd have done anything to keep.
Skilled, experienced staff — often in their 50s and 60s, at the peak of their careers — reduce hours or leave. Replacing them costs far more than supporting them would have.
Most working carers never tell their employer. By the time it surfaces, they're already burnt out and halfway out the door. The problem is invisible until it's expensive.
Your benefits cover mental health apps and gym memberships. Almost none of them help the employee trying to coordinate care for Mum or Dad from 200 miles away.
Move the sliders to your organisation. The estimate uses published UK averages — it's a conversation-starter, not an exact figure.
Illustrative only. Working-carer prevalence from Census 2021 / Carers UK (~1 in 7 of the workforce). Replacement cost assumed at ~6 months' salary per lost employee — a widely used conservative estimate. Your real figures will differ.
Not another app to ignore. Real help for the employee, and visibility of an invisible problem for you — handled with complete confidentiality.
Their own care guide to help navigate appointments, services, benefits and the day-to-day coordination of caring for a parent — so it doesn't all fall on them alone.
The appointments, the documents, the family logistics — organised, shared, and off their mental load, so they can focus at work instead of firefighting.
Offered as a confidential staff benefit. You see anonymised take-up and impact — never personal details — and you keep experienced people who'd otherwise quietly leave.
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Folkwell is being shaped with the HR and people leaders who'll use it. If working carers are on your radar, we'd value a conversation — and you'll help shape what we build.
Email us at hello@folkwell.co.ukNo pitch. A 20-minute conversation about how your organisation handles working carers today.