This past September 16th was Working Parents Day, designed to honor those who work to provide for their family. It goes without saying that many parents (including this writer) are now juggling work and kids at any given moment, with the appearance of kids’ curious faces in their parents’ Zoom boxes during all-hands meetings only the most adorable example.
Here’s how these companies honor working parents on Working Parents’ Day and every day.
Under the category of Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits, Sunnova offers:
- Family Medical Leave
- Generous Parental Leave
- Relocation Assistance
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“While Chegg puts students first in our products and services, we also put our employees, and their families, first at our company. We have a plethora of benefits that support our parents including emotional support for our employees and their dependents through Ginger.io, an app that provides confidential mental healthcare. We also offer free Headspace memberships, which is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation. For our employees expecting a baby, we give support through Cleo, which provides expert support, guidance, and anytime access from pregnancy through their baby’s first year. When their children are ready to start eating solids, we provide a Yumi credit, which provides freshly made, organic and tailored food to your baby’s milestones, delivered to their door weekly. When our parents need assistance with childcare, our emergency backup childcare from Care@Work provides expert assistance in prescreening potential caregivers and subsidize the cost of backup care. Additionally, during the pandemic, parents took an extra burden of balancing work and childcare. Chegg provided $1000 childcare reimbursement for 2019 and an additional $1000 in 2020. Lastly, we have a parents employee resource group that is a dedicated community to support one another as well as provide programming to engage parents and their children in immersive events, such as coding sessions, puppet shows, storytime, and much more.”
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“Vertafore provides up to 6 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. We also provide 6 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.”
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Medela, recognized as a best company for work-life balance in 2020, is focused on empowering working parent employees to balance with family and work. In the USA, Medela offers solutions that make that goal easier, like remote work, flex schedules, emergency backup child and dependent care, in-app telehealth consultations, and a supportive benefits package.
Medela offers dedicated pumping spaces stocked with lactation products and 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave for all employees that can be used over the first 12 months after baby. Additionally, all new parents have access to 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.
To support other working and breastfeeding mothers, Medela is awarding free milk shipping to moms who need it. With a new winner in the USA each month, the #MedelaMailMyMilk initiative celebrates, through action and support, the health of women and infants across the nation. Learn more and enter to win via the contest page.
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“Every day is working Parents’ Day at Sitel Group®. We host family days across many of our locations. However, the best way to help working parents is to give them the flexibility they need to balance their working and personal lives – all year round.
We make remote working easy for all of our people and have built our own flexible scheduling tool that works across devices to allow our staff to fit their shift patterns around their parental responsibilities.
Likewise, we constantly crowdsource employee feedback to understand how we can better the lives of our people and improve their experience at work so that they can remain engaged and productive. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Sitel Group.”
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Alo Yoga offers paid paternity and maternity leave. The company also just signed on board a platform called Maven for families as an extension of its enhanced benefits, offering consultants who can coach new parents through returning to work.
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Nordic Consulting offers paid paternity and maternity leave.
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“Your family is important to us. Wish provides generous leave options for new parents.”
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100% of LRP Media Group employees report they are happy with their work life balance.
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