Working Mother – 100 Best Companies to Work For

Working Mother just released it’s 2010 list of America’s 100 best companies for work-life balance.

For 25 years, Working Mother has ranked America’s companies for their family-friendliness and the benefits they provide for working mothers including schedule flexibility, telecommuting and temporary part-time work options, and programs to help women achieve greater work-life balance.

While this list acknowledges the best companies for working moms, all employees benefit from the way these companies approach their employee’s work life.

I was amazed to read that the 100 Best Companies application process included more than 600 questions on workforce representation, child care, flexibility programs, leave policies and more. It surveyed the usage, availability and tracking of programs, as well as the accountability of managers.

According to the Working Mother website, eight key areas were scored: workforce profile; benefits; women’s issues and advancement; child care; flexible work; paid time off and leaves; company culture; and work-life programs.

Then Working Mother’s staffers created a scoring algorithm based on the previous year’s benchmark results, which determined the winners. For this year’s list, they gave particular weight to child care, flexibility and paid time off and leaves.

100 Best Companies to Work For

Here’s Working Mother’s 2010 list of the 100 best companies in America to work for (in alphabetical order).  Is your employer on the list?

1. Abbott
2. Accenture
3. Allstate Insurance
4. American Electric Power
5. American Express
6. AOL
7. Arnold & Porter
8. AstraZeneca
9. Automatic Data Processing
10. Bain & Co.
11. Bank of America
12. Baptist Health South Florida
13. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina
14. Boehringer Ingelheim USA
15. Bon Secours Richmond Health System
16. Booz Allen Hamilton
17. The Boston Consulting Group
18. Bristol-Myers Squibb
19. Bronson Healthcare Group
20. Capital One Financial
21. Carlson
22. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
23. Cisco
24. Citi
25. Colgate Palmolive
26. Covington & Burling
27. Credit Suisse
28. Dell
29. Deloitte
30. Deutsche Bank
31. Diageo North America
32. Discovery Communications
33. Dow Corning
34. DuPont
35. Eli Lilly and Co.
36. Ernst & Young
37. Fannie Mae
38. FINRA
39. First Horizon National
40. First National Bank
41. Freddie Mac
42. Genentech
43. General Electric
44. General Mills
45. Goldman Sachs
46. Grant Thornton
47. Hallmark Cards
48. HCA Virginia Health System
49. Hewitt Associates
50. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
51. HP
52. IBM
53. Intel
54. Johnson & Johnson
55. Katten Muchin Rosenman
56. Kellogg
57. KPMG
58. Kraft Foods
59. Lego Systems
60. March of Dimes Foundation
61. Marriott International
62. MasterCard Worldwide
63. McGladrey
64. The McGraw Hill Companies
65. McKinsey & Co.
66. Merck
67. Mercy Health System
68. MetLife
69. Microsoft
70. Moffitt Cancer Center
71. Monsanto
72. Morgan Stanley
73. National Education Association
74. New York Life Insurance
75. Northern Trust
76. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
77. Novo Nordisk
78. Patagonia
79. Pearson
80. Pfizer
81. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
82. The PNC Financial Services Group
83. PricewaterhouseCoopers
84. The Principal Financial Group
85. Procter & Gamble
86. Prudential Financial
87. Sanofi-aventis U.S.
88. SC Johnson
89. Scripps Health
90. Texas Instruments
91. TriHealth
92. Turner Broadcasting System
93. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
94. VCU Health System
95. Verizon Communications
96. WellPoint
97. WellStar Health System
98. Wyndham Worldwide
99. Yale University
100. Yale-New Haven Hospital

Check back next time for a list of the top 10 best companies to work for, and what makes them so special.

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