With the launch of its Working Families Business Resource Council at the end of 2011, this financial services firm showed its dedication to employee parents, who appreciate its lunchtime seminars on work life balance, sponsored events for their children and information about family-friendly benefits and policies. Equally meaningful to them is the firm’s wide variety of child care, which includes an on-site day care with sliding-scale fees (at headquarters), a holiday camp for kids 6 through 12 and a backup care program for children, elders and adults with special needs. At least 45% of the firm’s workforce telecommuted last year, while 28% flexed their hours and 17% compressed schedules; depending on their jobs, moms may receive 15 or 20 vacation days annually, which rises to 25 days after 25 years.

Chairman & CEO Rick Waddell

Executive VP & Head of HR and Administration Tim Moen

Women managers/execs 48%

Women hires in 2011 44%

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 2

Offers paid paternity leave? Yes

Offers paid adoption leave? Yes

Women in affinity groups in 2011 Not tracked

Offers backup child care? Yes

Employees working flexibly 28%