Ideas from Smaller Businessses
What other businesses are doing to add work/life benefits to their benefits package.
Name | Number of Employees | What They're Doing |
Benjamin Group Public Relations | 72 | - Company subsidized ($266/month) on-site child care facility - - launched when company had fewer than 20 employees
- 97% of employees work flextime, 83% work compressed workweeks
- Ongoing training of managers in Alternative Work Arrangements
- Mentoring, career counseling and leadership training for employees
- Female CEO
- Average tenure for employees 1/3 longer then competitors
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Tom's of Maine Personal Care | 96 | - Child and elder care resource and referral service available
- Eight hours of paid time off per month for employees to volunteer in community
- High marks for flexibility - 36% of employees work at home
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Calvert Group Mutual Funds Manager | 145 | - Employees receive $1,000 baby bonus and up to $5,000 towards adoption costs, on-site back-up child care and matching funds of up to 20% for contributions to a dependent care flexible spending account
- Wellness room where employees can receive massages or nurse babies
- Transportation program that reimburses commuting costs, subsidizes parking, and pays up to $120 for walking shoes or $350 for a bicycle
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Security Benefit Group Financial Services | 581 | - Sick child care at local hospital for $1/hour for employees
- On-site child care center
- 95% employees participate in flextime
- Personal Annual Leave policy allows employees to tap into a bank of up to 24 personal days
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Lancaster Laboratories Environmental, Pharmaceutical and Food Services | 635 | - All employees work flex-time 26% work at home on as-needed basis
- On-site child care facility (includes summer day camp, before/after school care and kindergarten)
- On-site adult day care facility (nursing care, physical/occupational therapy and activities with the children down the hall)
- Turnover is 1/2 the industry rate
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Patagonia Outdoor Apparel | 637 | - Kids program picks up school-age children from local schools and brings them back to in-site child care center
- Company also sponsors 19 high-quality family child care homes
- School Support program allows employees to take five workdays off during the school year to participate in kids' classroom activities
- Environmental internship program: a two-month paid sabbatical for employees who want to take time off to work for a non-profit environmental organization.
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Ridgeview Manufacturing | 881 | - Discounted child care at on-site facility
- Flexible work arrangements offered on case-by-case basis
- Free yearly on-site mammograms and health screenings
- Salaried workers - both moms and dads receive 24 fully paid weeks of time off when child is born
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