Mothers are central to all our lives. For almost everyone, a mother is our soft spot, our memory of mercy and comfort from our earliest years. Our mothers are our friends, our heroes, our confidantes, our trusted navigators, our role models, our earliest examples of someone who is on our side for it all.
And working mothers are truly a double-threat: not only raising and instilling in their children values and humanity but also contributing just as much as anyone else to our workplaces across North American. A working mom has reserves of strength and commitment that Navy SEALS would admire in awe.
For this upcoming Mother’s Day 2021 (this Sunday), here are 8 companies that wanted to let you all know how much mothers mean to them. From all of them and all of us at Comparably, here’s to every mom that ever picked us up in her warm embrace and told us how we might help the world become a better place.
Why is it important for Experian to support and celebrate moms?
Providing women the opportunity to thrive successfully while also raising a family is critical to our values as an employer who supports their employees’ life balance.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
Our support of moms has several proof points including benefits which include fertility treatment coverage, a New Parents club, flexible spending accounts for childcare expenses, an Aspire ERG to support caregiving, and even college tuition scholarships. Perhaps most importantly Experian provides flexible schedules of all types to accommodate moms’ busy lives, including remote working.
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Why is it important to support and celebrate moms at RingCentral?
There is nothing more purposeful than a mother. Mothers represent a high percentage of our workforce and balance work, the home, and being a mother all at the same time. We feel it’s critically important to showcase them for all that they do every hour of every day while contributing substantially to our organization.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
We have a Mom Support Group that allows moms a safe space to share and get the support they need. We also have dedicated a blog to our moms here at RingCentral that allows them to be recognized for all they each day to make our business successful due to their unwavering dedication and commitment. We also have a special video that we dedicate to them from our marketing and leadership team.
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Why is it important for Medela to support and celebrate moms?
“We must invest in women– and I’ve seen first-hand how supporting motherhood in the workplace is a simple and mutually beneficial endeavor that more organizations need to embrace,” said Melissa Gonzales, RN and executive vice president of the Americas for Medela. “It is both the right thing to do, and it makes good business sense. It is time for leaders in positions of power and influence to stand up for the future of motherhood. After all, without mothers, there is no future.”
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
“At Medela, we are focused on helping working parents balance family and work by offering solutions that make it easier, like access to remote work, flex schedules, emergency back-up child and dependent care, in-app health consultations, and a supportive benefits package,” Gonzales explains. “For expectant and new mom employees, we offer dedicated pumping spaces stocked with lactation products and 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave (in the US), paired with New Moms’ Healthy Returns, which provides top-of-the-line Medela breastfeeding products and resources, 24/7 on-demand access to maternal and pediatric experts, and breast milk shipping for traveling employees.” As a partner in National Women’s Health Week and in honor of Mother’s Day, Medela is launching a new #MedelaMailMyMilk initiative to celebrate, through action and support, the health of women and infants across the nation. This initiative will support breastfeeding mothers working away from their babies by awarding free milk shipping to one new mom from the USA each month; to enter visit the contest page: https://woobox.com/vngn9n.
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Why is it important for Boston Consulting Group to support and celebrate moms?
BCG has a strong commitment to increasing the number, success, and satisfaction of women at the firm. We are able to retain men and women at equal rates at all career states because we care deeply about supporting women at BCG and helping them unlock their potential, both personally and professionally.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
Our global Women@BCG network offers the best-in-class programs in career development, mentorship, and networking to help women excel personally and professionally.
In the US, our family support benefits include surrogacy and adoption reimbursement, elective egg freezing reimbursement, emergency dependent care, lactation resources, and of course, a generous parental leave policy.
Flexibility@BCG (open to all employees, not just parents) offers 3 flexible work options and the ongoing support to manage them, including the ability to work at 60% or 80% capacity. We also celebrate mothers by sharing lots of baby photos whenever a new member of the BCG family joins the world!
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Why is it important to support and celebrate moms at GE Power?
16.4% of GE Gas Power’s overall workforce identifies as female; 18.9% of leadership and 22.6% of professionals identified as female in 2020. With over 275,000 women leaving the U.S. workforce in January 2021 due to the stresses of the pandemic, it’s more important than ever that we promote growth leaders who will ensure both their career success and GE’s growth as a company.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
GE encourages flexible working arrangements that enable employees to individualize their schedules to maximize productivity. Among the options GE offers are flex-time, part-time opportunities, job sharing, reduced hours, telecommuting, and remote work. We also support working moms through our employee resource group, the GE Women’s Network.
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Why is it important for XPO Logistics to support and celebrate moms?
Women make up 50% of the workforce. At XPO, our female leaders play a key role in our organization’s success. In partnership with our SheIsXPO and Working Parents Employee Resource Group, we celebrate Mother’s Day and recognize the many roles women play in support of their families. Mother’s Day is an opportunity to step back and say THANK YOU!
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
At XPO, we will have several leaders contribute words of gratitude to our female colleagues. Many of our sites will host engagement events the week leading up to Mother’s Day. We’re also participating in the Susan G. Komen #AMomentWMom campaign, which encourages colleagues to share their favorite story, photo, or memory of a super mom in their life. We’ll highlight these stories on our internal and external channels.
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Why is it important for Appian to support and celebrate moms?
As an employer, it’s important to us that mothers, just like all of our employees, feel supported and celebrated both with work and life.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
At Appian, we believe becoming a mother is a monumental moment for all members of the family. To ensure our mothers are given enough time to soak it all in, we are proud to share Appian recently enhanced our maternity leave policy from 12 weeks to 16 weeks fully paid and parental leave (fathers and adopting parents) to 12 weeks. We also offer hospital-grade Medela Symphony breast pumps in our Headquarters and a Milk Stork service for our traveling nursing moms. Given the pandemic, we have also seen a wonderful new community form amongst women via an actively used chatroom where mothers share tips and seek advice; creating a fantastic outlet for mothers at Appian to feel connected globally.
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Why is it important to support and celebrate moms at Hometap?
Our accomplished team at Hometap includes a lot of parents who understand the challenges of raising a family and excelling in their careers. By supporting mothers at Hometap, we’re enabling them to be fully present at home and bring their best selves to work.
What are some specific ways that your company supports or celebrates mothers?
We’ve partnered with the Mom Project to better support mothers at Hometap. This allows us to attract qualified candidates that are re-entering the workforce after an extended leave and provides them with the support that they need to make that transition as smoothly as possible. The organization also helps us analyze our benefits and offers recommendations for ways that we can continue to improve to support mothers here at Hometap.
Check Out Hometap’s Careers Page Here!