McGladrey’s free Coach-on-Call program offers employees access to sessions with a licensed coach to help them achieve their desired success.

Alternative schedules are popular at the accounting, tax and business consulting firms known as McGladrey, the brand that comprises RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen. In 2009, 90% of their employees adjusted their hours, and 60% compressed their weeks or telecommuted at some point. Everyone gets a career advisor who helps investigate flexible work options, and "WorkLife Ambassadors" spread the message that you don't need to sit behind a desk to serve clients. Employees in some locations can opt to work from home, at client sites or in "flex spaces" that suit their work styles. FlexYear, an arrangement that permits monthly or seasonal shifts, allows many moms to ramp up work from January to April, when demand is high, then reduce or eliminate hours during summer. After ten years, partners and managing directors enjoy paid sabbaticals of up to three months.

RSM McGladrey President C.E. Andrews

McGladrey & Pullen Managing Partner Dave Scudder

Women managers, senior managers and corporate execs 37%

Women among top earners 23%

Women on board of directors 11%

Women corporate executive hires in 2009 0%

Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year* 69%

Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year* 1%

Women promoted last year who utilized a formal flexible work arrangement 32%

Do formal compensation policies reward managers who help women advance? No

*Percentages reflect number of women participants versus company’s total female workforce.