In addition to their coverage for infertility treatments or financial help with adoptions, many of our winning companies offer other exceptional family-friendly benefits.
For instance, American Express, through its Project Resource Team (PRT) program’s Embrace group, lets high-performing employees enter an internal consulting pool that allows them to step back from full-time work for a period of time where the employee defines where, when, and how she/he works. Additionally, Amex offers Parenting 101, a seminar with sessions on sleep issues, potty training, and surviving the “terrible twos.” Some more great extras:
Adoption counseling and resources are available to employees at Forest Laboratories. Forest also offers a phase-back-to-work following parental leave after a birth or adoption. And to help working parents balance time at home and at work, it offers flex-time and summer hours. Parents can also receive a company match of 25 percent (up to a maximum of $1,000) for child care.
Bank of America reimburses (tax-free) part of child-care costs (up to $240 per child/per month) for anyone making less than $55,000 in base salary.
Software developer SAS Institute offers two on-site, subsidized Montessori child-care facilities for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. Other family-friendly benefits at SAS include college scholarships for employees’ children and a social worker to assist with adoptions.
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A free fitness center and subsidized day care on site are some of the perks at law firm Arnold & Porter’s headquarters.
Harvard University boasts six on-campus child-care centers, and employees can apply for scholarships (ranging from $7,500 to $20,000) to defray the cost of child care. Backup child care programs, school vacation camps, and 15 paid days a year to care for a sick child help keep working parents sane.
Capital One (at its corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia) offers free backup child care when the primary providers are unavailable. Capital One also offers associates flexible work solutions including flextime, compressed work weeks, part-time, and telework to help them manage their work and personal lives.
Franklin International gives $500 per year in matching contributions toward a child’s 529 college savings plan, subsidizes kids’ textbooks, and helps pay for advanced defensive driving training for teenagers.
