Your driver just called out.
Their sitter cancelled.
We fix that.

There's no minimum. If you have one driver who's a parent, they can use Upwards. Pay-as-you-go pricing means you only pay for what you need and you can cancel anytime.

Companies that pair Upwards with even a small care stipend see 35% opt-in rates in the first 90 days. We provide ready-to-send launch communications so your drivers know about it from day one.

That's exactly who Upwards was built for. Our home daycare network includes providers open 12+ hours a day, some 24/7. We cover early mornings, overnights, and weekends that standard care centers can't touch.

No. The same navigator handles child care, elder care, and backup care. If a driver needs to find in-home help for an aging parent or emergency overnight care for a toddler, one person handles it all.

Three ways: (1) The Section 45F tax credit can return up to $600K/yr for eligible businesses. (2) Replacing one driver costs around $8,200 — retaining just one pays for 5+ years of Upwards for your whole team. (3) Subsidy Connect helps your drivers find government assistance to reduce their out-of-pocket care costs. And the numbers in trucking are stark: long-haul driver turnover runs 79–94% annually (BLS), the industry is already short more than 64,000 drivers (ATA), and the ATA estimates it will need to hire nearly 1.1 million new drivers over the next decade. The fleets that keep their people will win.

Care.com is a self-serve directory: no vetting, no support, no follow-through. Searching Google works great at 2pm on a Tuesday. It doesn't work when your driver is calling you at 5am because their sitter bailed. Upwards has a live team that picks up in under a minute and gets it handled.