This global hospitality and travel giant operates in 150 countries, employing more than 28,000 hourly workers in the United States alone. Despite its size, Carlson manages to offer its working parents a wealth of solutions to meet their needs. Anyone who works 20 or 30 hours weekly (depending on division) is eligible to participate in the company’s 401(k) and can choose from three health plans, with vision and dental. If they decide to add to their families, employees can take 12 job-guaranteed weeks off for maternity leave, with six partially paid, or one fully paid week for paternity leave; adoptive parents receive one to six fully paid weeks off, plus a $5,000 benefit. For child care, employees can turn to an on-site center at headquarters, which serves kids from infancy through pre-K, while simultaneously saving $5,000 in pretax dependent care accounts. Free child-care and elder-care referrals, counseling, college coaching and resources on single parenting are easily accessed through an employee assistance program. At milestone anniversaries, employees earn financial rewards; most recently, 4,000 current workers (half of them women) marked ten to 35 years of service.

Hourly workers 86%

President & CEO Hubert Joly

Executive VP & CAO James Porter

Female hourly workers 55%

Work hours required for family health insurance Varies

Job skills training during work hours for hourly workers Yes

Encourage breaks so nursing moms can breast-pump No

Average annual paid time off taken by hourly workers 10 days

Minimum job-guaranteed maternity leave offered to hourly workers 12 weeks

Minimum paid maternity leave offered to hourly workers 6 weeks at partial pay