Supporting Employees and Their Families with Cyber Safety Education

Employee benefits don’t have to stop at the workplace.

A Minnesota financial services company wanted to provide its employees with practical education they could use in their personal lives—especially as parents and caregivers navigating today’s increasingly complicated digital world.

The company partnered with Cyber Safety Consulting to offer cyber safety education as an employee benefit. Over three years, approximately 1,000 employees have had access to practical guidance designed to help them better protect their families online.

The Challenge: Helping Employees Navigate Cyber Safety at Home

For working parents and caregivers, managing technology at home can be challenging.

Social media, gaming, smartphones, online predators, scams, privacy concerns and rapidly changing technology can leave families with questions about how to keep children safer online.

Rather than viewing these concerns as something completely separate from the workplace, this company chose to make cyber safety education available to employees as a benefit.

A Cyber Safety Program Designed for Parents and Caregivers

Cyber Safety Consulting developed programming specifically for employees who are also parents and caregivers.

Instead of concentrating on corporate network security or workplace cybersecurity, the sessions focused on the digital safety issues employees encounter with their own families.

The goal was practical: give participants information they could take home and use to help protect their families online.

Addressing Today’s Digital Challenges

The program covered a broad range of cyber safety topics relevant to today’s families, including:

These topics give parents and caregivers a broader understanding of the digital environments their children are navigating while providing practical opportunities to strengthen online safety at home.

The Impact: Practical Knowledge Employees Can Take Home

The value of the program extends beyond the presentation itself.

Participants reported learning how to better protect their families online.

One participant described the program simply:

“This session was so informative.”

The company’s continued participation also provides an important measure of the program’s value. Cyber Safety Consulting has been invited back for three consecutive years.

A Benefit Employees Look Forward To

Perhaps one of the strongest indicators of the program’s success is the response from the company’s team:

“This is the 3rd year that we have hosted CSC, and our team was so excited to have them back!”

The repeat engagement demonstrates how cyber safety education can become more than a one-time workplace presentation. It can become a valued employee resource that helps parents and caregivers respond to an online world that continues to change.

The company reported that participants learned how to protect their families online, while feedback described the sessions as informative and welcomed Cyber Safety Consulting’s return.

Why Cyber Safety Education Makes Sense as an Employee Benefit

Organizations routinely offer benefits designed to support employees beyond their immediate job responsibilities.

Cyber safety education can complement those efforts by addressing something many employees deal with every day: helping their families develop safer, healthier relationships with technology.

For employers, it is an opportunity to provide practical education that employees can immediately apply at home.

For parents and caregivers, it provides credible guidance for navigating technology, understanding emerging online risks and having better conversations with their children.

Bring Cyber Safety Education to Your Organization

Cyber Safety Consulting works with companies and organizations to provide practical cyber safety education that can be customized for employees, parents and caregivers.

Whether you’re planning an employee wellness program, professional development initiative, lunch-and-learn or special employee benefit, Cyber Safety Consulting can create a program around the online safety issues most relevant to your team.

Give your employees cyber safety knowledge they can take home to their families.

Schedule a Corporate Cyber Safety Consultation