Tutoring benefits
Employer-sponsored tutoring for employees’ families.
A tutoring benefit gives your employees' children access to one-to-one academic help, with sessions paid for by the employer up to any allowance the plan funds. Office Hours runs the program: families ask for help, work with our tutors, and keep everything organized in one account.
What a tutoring benefit is
Most working parents arrange tutoring themselves: finding someone, checking fit, scheduling, paying, and following up. A tutoring benefit moves that work off the family. The employer funds access; Office Hours handles requests, scheduling, and delivery.
It is support for employees’ children, not a training or tuition program for employees themselves.
Subjects and grade levels
Tutoring is available for middle and high school students, grades 6–12. Subject areas include:
- Math
- Science
- English and writing
- History and social studies
- Spanish and Mandarin
- Computer science
- PSAT, SAT and ACT preparation
How families request help
The family describes what the student needs
In their Office Hours account, a parent or student explains the subject, the course, and what is getting in the way, in plain language.
An Office Hours tutor follows up
A tutor picks up the request, reviews what the family has shared with us before, and replies in writing with a suggested next step.
A session is scheduled
The family proposes a time, and the tutor confirms it or suggests another. Upcoming and past sessions stay listed in the family's account.
How the allowance works
Your plan funds the hours. Families use them.
When a plan includes it, the employer funds a block of one-to-one tutor and counselor time and sets how much of it each family can use. Families use that time at no additional cost.
A family that wants more than its allowance, or whose plan does not fund one-to-one time, can book sessions at the agreed corporate rates. Hours a family pays for themselves are between the family and Office Hours.
Study skills coaching
Some students struggle not because the material is too hard, but because their planning and study habits are not working. Families can request study skills coaching the same way they request tutoring. It covers planning, organization, time management, and how to prepare for tests, rather than course content.
What HR does, and doesn’t
HR does
- Choose the plan and any funded allowance
- Confirm which employees are eligible
- Share the enrollment link
- Review aggregate program reporting
HR doesn’t
- Handle family requests
- Schedule sessions or manage tutors
- See which families use tutoring
- See student information or session content
Common questions
Who can use the tutoring benefit?
Students in grades 6–12 in the families of eligible employees. Your organization decides which employees are eligible when the program is set up.
Is tutoring free for families?
Sessions within the allowance your plan funds are at no additional cost to the family. Families who want more than the allowance, or whose plan does not fund one-to-one time, can book sessions at the agreed corporate rates and pay for those directly.
How are sessions scheduled?
Through the family's account: the family proposes a time, and the tutor confirms it or proposes a different one. Sessions are 30 to 90 minutes.
What if our families need a subject that isn't listed?
Families can describe any course in their request, and Office Hours will let them know whether it can be covered.
Does HR schedule sessions or handle requests?
No. Families work directly with Office Hours. HR sponsors access, confirms eligibility, and receives aggregate reporting.
What does the employer see?
Program-level figures: enrollment, participation, on-demand workshop views, deadline-checklist progress, and total hours used from any funded allowance. Reports do not name the families who used tutoring, and employers never see what a family asked for or anything about a student. Headcounts below the reporting threshold (five people by default) are withheld. Hours are reported as a program total and are not currently withheld below the threshold. In small programs, aggregate hours may allow an employer to infer an individual family’s participation.
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