Sifting through the details of a corporate benefits program while tending to newborns or young kids would drive anybody crazy. With its “Becoming a Parent” website, this audit, tax and advisory services firm makes it easy for new moms and dads to quickly find the information they need on paid parental leave, lactation rooms, child care, health insurance and more. Other sanity savers include up to 20 days of subsidized backup care per child annually (available both in employees’ own homes and through local providers), plus flexible schedules, summer Fridays, office fitness classes and wellness coaching. Generous policies give employees 20 to 30 days of paid time off per year, with 8 to 10 paid holidays; to make sure that they really use it, an internal computer system alerts managers when anyone fails to do so.

Chairman & CEO John Veihmeyer

Vice Chair, HR & Communications Bruce Pfau 

Women managers/execs 38%

Women hires in 2011 44%

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 9

Offers paid paternity leave? Yes

Offers paid adoption leave? Yes

Women in affinity groups in 2011 54%

Offers backup child care? Yes

Employees working flexibly 100%