Whatever their crisis or concern, hourly workers at this food and facilities management services company can get help from its comprehensive employee assistance provider, which offers college coaching for their kids and emotional and substance-abuse counseling. To make room for events in their personal lives, 40% of the hourly population flexed their schedules at some point last year. If they average 30 hours of work per week out of at least 6 of 12 weeks, they become eligible for health insurance.

CEO: George Chavel

Senior VP and Chief HR Officer: Peri Bridger

Work hours required for family health insurance: --

Formal advancement program offered for hourly employees? Yes

% of hourly employees promoted to manager positions: Less than 1%

Job-skills training offered for hourly employees? Yes

Managers rewarded for helping hourly employees advance? Yes

Lactation program offered for nursing mother employees? Yes

Paid time off offered to employees? Yes

Employee mothers with one year of service offered extra time off (beyond the 12 weeks required by FMLA) following childbirth? No