Stronger Families. Stronger Workforce.
Practical workforce support for employees who work away from home — and the families who support them.
When work regularly takes employees away from home, the impact is shared by the family. Long Distance Family helps employers understand where work-related separation is creating pressure and gives employees and families practical tools to navigate time apart, stay connected and transition home.
Work Away From Home Affects More Than the Worker
Rotational schedules, frequent travel, extended assignments and other work-away arrangements can create meaningful opportunities for employees and their families.
They can also create unique pressures.
Time apart can affect communication, parenting, household responsibilities, connection, expectations and the transition back home.
Most workplace wellness programs are designed around the individual employee.
Long Distance Family focuses on a part of the employee experience that can easily be overlooked:
the family system surrounding the worker.
We help organizations better understand that experience and provide practical support without intruding into employees’ private lives.
A Practical Approach to Work-Related Separation
Families who regularly spend time apart often move through a recurring cycle.
Prepare
Getting ready for another period apart — responsibilities, schedules, expectations and communication.
Separate
Adjusting to different routines, increased responsibilities at home and the realities of being away.
Connect
Maintaining meaningful communication, involvement and connection across distance.
Return
Navigating expectations, routines and relationships when the worker comes home.
Reset
Learning what worked, adjusting what did not, and preparing for the next period apart.
Long Distance Family develops practical tools and workforce support around these real transition points.
How We Help Organizations
Our approach is simple:
Listen
Understand what employees and families are experiencing.
Understand
Identify where work-related separation is creating the greatest pressure and what support employees would actually value.
Equip
Provide employees and families with practical tools they can use before, during and after periods apart.
Respond
Help HR and People & Culture teams identify realistic opportunities to strengthen workforce and family support.
Our Services
Give employees and families practical tools they can use immediately.
A live, practical session designed for employees whose work regularly takes them away from home and the partners and families navigating that experience alongside them.
The session focuses on maintaining connection, managing expectations, navigating time apart and transitioning home.
Includes
employer kickoff discussion
75-minute live employee and family session
practical LDF Family Field Guide
employee and partner resources
employer communication materials
live Q&A
Understand where work-related separation is creating pressure in your workforce.
Organizations often provide extensive wellness resources without knowing which parts of the work-away experience are creating the greatest challenges for employees and families.
The LDF Workforce Relationship Pulse provides a focused way to listen.
Employees are invited to share their experience through a confidential workforce pulse examining areas such as time apart, communication, family responsibilities, connection, transitions home and access to support.
Your organization receives
confidential workforce pulse
analysis of key themes and pressure points
concise Workforce Family Insights Brief
practical employer considerations
60-minute HR/People & Culture results discussion
Listen. Understand. Equip. Respond.
For organizations that want to move beyond awareness and provide practical support.
The LDF Workforce Family Support Pilot combines workforce insight, employee and family education, practical resources and an HR action session into one focused engagement.
We begin by listening to your workforce.
We identify where work-related separation is creating the greatest pressure.
We use those findings to tailor practical education and resources for employees and families.
Then we work with HR and People & Culture to identify realistic opportunities for continued support.
The Pilot Includes
1. Employer Kickoff
A focused discussion to understand your workforce, work arrangements and existing supports.
2. Workforce Relationship Pulse
A confidential employee pulse designed specifically around the realities of recurring work-related separation.
3. Workforce Family Insights Brief
A concise summary identifying key themes, pressure points, support needs and practical considerations.
4. Customized Employee & Family Session
A live session shaped by what your workforce tells us matters most.
5. LDF Family Field Guide
Practical tools employees and families can use throughout the work-away cycle.
6. Employer Action Map
A focused summary separating employee and family strategies, leadership opportunities and areas the organization may wish to explore further.
7. HR Action Lab
A facilitated session to review findings and identify practical next steps.
Built for Workforces that Spend Time Apart
Long Distance Family is industry-neutral because work-related separation exists across many sectors.
We support organizations with employees working in arrangements such as:
rotational and remote work
project-based assignments
frequent business travel
extended deployments
transportation and multi-day routes
field-based work
specialized operations
other roles requiring regular time away from home
Different industries.
Different schedules.
Many of the same family pressures.
Why Long Distance Family?
Specialized
We focus specifically on the intersection between work-related separation, employees and family life.
Practical
Our goal is not simply to raise awareness. Employees and families receive tools they can actually use.
Workforce-Focused
We help HR and People & Culture teams understand what employees are experiencing and identify realistic opportunities for support.
Family-Inclusive
Where appropriate, partners and families can participate directly rather than being treated as an invisible part of the employee experience.
Respectful of Boundaries
Long Distance Family is not counselling, psychotherapy or an employee-relations investigation.
We provide education, workforce insight and practical family-support resources while respecting employee privacy.
Built From Lived Experience.
Long Distance Family was created from firsthand experience with the realities of having work regularly take a family member away from home.
Samantha Bahan Fehr combines that lived perspective with more than a decade of experience across mental health, human services and human resources.
That combination shapes LDF's approach:
listen first, understand the experience, and provide practical support that respects both the worker and the family.
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You Already Support Your Employees.
We help you support the people behind them too.
If your organization relies on employees who regularly spend time away from home, Long Distance Family can help you understand the family side of that experience and determine what practical support could look like for your workforce.
Not Ready for a Full Pilot?
Start with a Family Connection Session or Workforce Relationship Pulse.
