Merck

Merck

Employees: 33,271
Women: 51 %
Headquarters: Whitehouse Station, NJ  
It's a Fact!
Summer day camps at Merck’s five child care centers treat employees’ children to fun arts and crafts sessions and nifty field trips.
What We Love

Employees can achieve a wide variety of goals at this pharmaceutical company. If they want to volunteer, they can take up to 20 paid hours off annually to do so, earning a full match on any donations they make to approved organizations, up to $30,000 per year if they are career-minded, they can take advantage of mentoring initiatives and tuition reimbursements for job-related courses (with their teens accessing college coaching and scholarships). To improve their health, they can visit 14 on-site clinics, consult with health coaches or work with registered nurses to devise disease-management plans. And if they want to get fit, they can test out spinning, shredding, trekking and other cool classes at the company’s six fitness centers.

CEO & President Kenneth C. Frazier

Executive VP, HR Mirian Graddick-Weir 

Women managers/execs 37%

Women hires in 2011 53%

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 6

Offers paid paternity leave? Yes

Offers paid adoption leave? Yes

Women in affinity groups in 2011 29%

Offers backup child care? Yes

Employees working flexibly Not tracked