Sittercity.com Helps Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Employees Find Support at Home
Thursday, January 22, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, IL.) - While Office of the Comptroller of the Currency employees work to supervise the country’s national banks, Sittercity.com is helping the team ensure loved ones are “safe and sound.”
As administrator of America’s national banks, the OCC’s mission is to ensure the safety and soundness of the national banking system. In today’s environment that means hard work and long hours. Enter Sittercity.com to help employees find quality babysitters, housekeepers, or petsitters.
Sittercity.com recently won a contract with the OCC to give its employees instant access to more than a million caregiver profiles nationwide through the Sittercity Corporate Program. Caregiver profiles come with background checks, references, parent feedback, videos, pictures and more to ensure that employees find the perfect match.
Sittercity’s Corporate Program is not restricted to just child care; it also contains many local in-home care providers in the areas of senior care, pet care, housekeeping and tutoring. Through a custom-built Sittercity-OCC Web site portal, parents can find the perfect sitter from their work terminals, making caregiving arrangements before they even get home.
“Right now, reducing absenteeism and increasing productivity has never been more important for companies, which is reflected in the unprecedented growth of our Corporate Program. These tough economic times call for innovative solutions, and our 'babysitting benefit' is just that. We have companies from a wide range of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail and financial services adopting the program to help their employees find care providers and to help them with the bottom line,” says Melissa Anderson, VP of Business Development at Sittercity.com. “This is our first government contract and we’re thrilled that we can help people find the care they need while they combat the effects of the economy... I think it’s safe to say that it’s on everybody’s minds right now.”
Sittercity.com®, the inventor of online caregiving, is America's largest and most trusted online source for child care, pet care, senior care, housekeeping, housesitting and tutoring. As the industry leader in online care, Sittercity has a network of more than a million caregiver profiles nationwide, and helps families and individuals across America find the perfect in-home care provider quickly, easily and safely. Sittercity's care-seekers can use the company's four-step screening process, which includes checking references, reading caregiver reviews, conducting interviews and utilizing free access to background checks. Sitter profiles also come with photos, experience, training, safety skills, availability calendars, reviews and more. The pioneer of its field, Sittercity has been featured by thousands of media outlets, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The View, TODAY Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Sittercity has also received twelve national awards, including a U.S. Small Business Administration award in 2006 from President Bush, and three international awards, including first place in the prestigious UPS "Out of the Box" Small Business contest. Sittercity's Corporate Program now serves more than thirty marquee clients, including Avon, Mastercard, FOX Networks, Pitney Bowes, and Monster Worldwide. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sittercity.com.
