Care.com

Care.com improves the lives of families and caregivers by helping them connect in a reliable and easy way. It offers solutions to help families make informed decisions in one of the most important and highly considered aspects of their family life—finding and managing quality care for their family—their children, parents, pets and other loved ones. In providing families a comprehensive marketplace for care, it is building the largest destination for quality caregivers to find fulfilling employment and career opportunities globally. The Company strives to help its members—families and caregivers—pursue their passions and fulfill the basic human need of caring for each other.

Care.com connects families with caregivers. It’s a simple concept that’s complicated to execute well, and Care.com strives to do it better than anyone. Whether it’s via our online platform (the world’s largest) or through our corporate clients, we focus on matching families with caregivers uniquely suited to their children, senior loved ones, pets, and homes. Our services and tools meet families where they are and adapt to their changing needs.

The Federal Trade Commission took legal action against child and older adult care platform Care.com.

FTC Accuses Care.com of Misleading Job-Seeking Caregivers

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring Care.com, a platform for gig workers in the elder-care and childcare space, to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceiving caregivers who were looking for jobs, and making it difficult for families to cancel their paid memberships.

Care.com to pay customers $8.5M in FTC settlement for deceiving caregivers, families

Care.com, a platform for providing in-home care services to children, older adults and pets, agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges it grossly inflated the number of available jobs and made it difficult for customers to cancel memberships.

Care.com reaches $8.5 million settlement with US FTC over membership renewals

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over the last few years, the radical shift in how we work has also changed expectations between employers and employees. However, Care.com's 2024 Future of Benefits Report, released today, reveals that there is common ground to be found in this battle: care benefits. From productivity, to workplace dynamics, to generational harmony, the research clearly shows that care benefits enable both sides to get what they want. Employers invest in benefits that drive produ.

Care.com Report Reveals Workplace Common Ground: Care Benefits

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Care.com's 2024 Cost of Care Report, released today, found that on average, parents who responded spend 24% of their household income on childcare with nearly half (47%) spending more than $18,000 in 2023. While this represents a slight drop from 27% in last year's report, it remains more than three times the 7% deemed affordable by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Additionally, and meaningfully, household income is not the only source of funding.

Annual Care.com Report Reveals Rising Childcare Costs Deplete the Incomes and Savings of American Families

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Care.com, the largest online platform for finding and managing family care, today announced that Bill Chase has been appointed General Manager, Consumer. In this capacity, Mr. Chase will have strategic and sales oversight for the Company's consumer operations including childcare, senior care, pet care, home care, Care.com HomePay, and out of home care services. In making the announcement, Care.com CEO Brad Wilson said, “The depth and breadth of our lines of busin.

Care.com Appoints Bill Chase General Manager, Consumer

AUSTIN, Texas & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Care.com, the world's largest online platform for finding and managing family care, and Stride Health, the only benefits platform built for independent workers, have joined forces to provide caregivers access to personalized affordable benefit plans. Via Stride's portable benefits platform, caregivers using Care.com can customize and select health insurance and dental and vision benefits. The service, which is a resumption and expansion of a progr.

Care.com and Stride Team Up to Provide Caregivers Access to Health Insurance and Other Benefits

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Care.com announced today that Glenn Petersen has been appointed General Manager, Enterprise for the Company. In this capacity, Mr. Petersen will oversee all sales, marketing, account management, and partnership channels for Care for Business, the Company's enterprise segment which partners with employers to provide a full suite of care support benefits to employees. Mr. Petersen will report to CEO Brad Wilson. In making the announcement, Mr. Wilson said, “Glenn h.

Care.Com Appoints Glenn Petersen General Manager, Enterprise

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CARE.COM BUILDS OUT EXECUTIVE TEAM WITH CMO, CPO AND CXO APPOINTMENTS.

Care.com Builds out Executive Team With CMO, CPO and CXO Appointments

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Care.com's 2023 Cost of Care Report found that parents spend 27% of their household income (HHI) on average on childcare, up from 24% just a year ago and nearly four times the amount deemed affordable by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (7%). The research also found that the majority of parents (59%) expect to spend more than $18,000 on childcare in 2023, nearly double the cost of in-state college tuition. The report comprises survey results of 3,.

New Care.com Report Reveals Soaring Childcare Costs Are Crippling Majority of American Families

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services considers childcare affordable at a reported 7% of annual household income (HHI), but that bears little correlation to what parents are actually spending. According to the Care.com 2022 Cost of Care survey, 51% of families spend 20% or more of their annual HHI on childcare in 2021, up from 31% of families in 2019, and 72% spending at least 10% of their HHI on childcare, up from 70% in 2019. These expenditures are a

Majority of Families Spend at Least 20% of Household Income on Childcare According to New Care.com Survey

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Care.com (NYSE: CRCM) shares are trading higher after the company announced it will be acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IAC) for $15 per share in an all-cash transaction of $500 million.

Barry Diller's IAC To Buy Care.com

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Care.com shares surge after Barry Diller's IAC agrees to buy online caregiver marketplace

Shares of Care.com Inc. CRCM, +0.15% spiked up 13% in premarket trading Friday, after the online marketplace for finding family care announced an agreement to be acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp.

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