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Diving brief:

• Starting in 2025, Liberty Mutual will offer up to five days of paid leave to military spouses to support a move, the company announced Nov. 1 in an update sent to HR Dive.
• The benefit applies to all employees – whether remote or hybrid – whose spouse or domestic partner has received a permanent job change order, a Liberty Mutual spokesperson told HR Dive by email. email.
• The service was developed in partnership with Valor@LibertyLiberty Mutual’s employee resource group for veterans, military members and their allies, “to help meet a critical need for military members and their families,” the company shared.

Dive overview:

To highlight the need for this new benefit, Liberty Mutual cited data from the Military Family Advisory Network showing that military families move on average every two and a half years. MFAN highlighted the stress such moves can cause for military families, especially when they have to pay moving-related costs, obtain child care and manage other life adjustments.

Liberty Mutual is proud of its support for the military; it has been designated a “military-friendly employer” since 2017, and the organization’s leaders have received numerous awards for their support of military employees. Beyond its military ERG and the new spousal leave benefit, Liberty offers paid leave and benefits to reservists during annual training and active duty. It also recruits transitioning military personnel and provides training through its participation in the Hiring Our Heroes program.

Frequent travel is just one of the challenges military workers face, experts say. Current and former military personnel and their families may also face difficulty adjusting to a different mission and culturecope with physical and mental health problems and manage a vast different work structure.

In addition to reaching out through specific recruiting programs and offering targeted benefits that meet the needs of military families, HR professionals can support this group by clarifying career development and promotion processes and connecting them with mentors within the organization, a military reservist suggested previously in an opinion article for HR Dive.