Doing business today means to encounter new challenges: globalisation, information and communication technolgy advances and increasing buyer’s markets. For companies to compete in this environment, they must manage their knowledge and human capital effectively. Due to emerging issues in all industries - like customer relationship management or cutting-edge information and communication technologies - business training is inevitable. Employees returning after parental leave are a special target group for business training: they need to regain their employability. Conventional corporate learning arrangements are not suitable to parents with special requirements concerning time wise and location wise restrictions. RETURN is a human resources training programme to qualify employees at the end of parental leave to start working more effectively. Common goals of RETURN are:

• to bring technical and computer skills up-to-date,

• to improve participants self-confidence,

• to keep parents tuned into what is going on in the workplace,

• to reduce training time requirements on the job,

• to help balancing work and family responsibilities,

• to obtain necessary competencies in ICT,

• to guide and support returning parents, and

• to create a learning culture and a positve attitude towards life-long learning.

In order to indicate the success of RETURN an empirical survey had been employed (2004 - 2006). The evaluation exhibits high rates of acceptance among the parties involved. The results had been consolidated to the reference number of ROI (return on investment), which shows that an average RETURN-course carries its own weight (costs) fivefold.