Here are the Top 50 companies in America for new dads

Here are the Top 50 companies in America for new dadsHere are the Top 50 companies in America for new dadsBeing a new dad is stressful enough. Suddenly, every hour of your life is dedicated to keeping a helpless little human alive. Compounding that stress is the fact that you may not have enough hours to do this. Workplaces in America are notoriously unerleichterungive of fathers, discouraging them from taking paternal leave or taking their share of childcare duties. Dads complain that workplaces still expect them to put their jobs ahead of their children. But there are some companies who are doing it right.Fatherlys 2018 list of the best workplaces for new dads is a model of how other companies should be doing it.Surveying U.S. companies with more than 1,000 employees, Fatherly analyzed thirteen different policies to determine its list, including weeks of paid leave, the availability of parents support group, fertility aid, adoption expenses, flextime, onsite childcare, childcare su bsidy, backup childcare, sick days, student loan assistance, bereavement leave, ramp-back time, and elder care planning. The tech sector continues to be a pioneer for supporting working fathers. Out of the top 50 places surveyed, 40% of them were tech companies.The best workplaces helped working fathers at every stage of their life - as they raised toddlers and as they helped their aging parents. The top-ranked company, American Express, not only has an exceptional leave offering, but a program designed to encourage new fathers to take advantage of it and other programs intended to provide additional assistance, Fatherlys editor-in-chief Andrew Burmon told Ladders. Theres no shock here The companies that provide the best working environments for new parents are the companies that take great pains to do so.1. American ExpressBeyond offering 20 weeks of paid parental leave (The U.S. government still only offers you a grand total of 0), American Express is there to help you before the baby is even there with family planning assistance. Amex offers would-be parents a maximum benefit of $35,000 to finance fertility treatments, surrogacy, and adoption. Parents can take advantage of that perk twice, Fatherly reports.2. LenovoLenovo offers fathers eight weeks of paid paternity leave, but where it shines is in its flexibility. Where Lenovo really sets itself apart is in providing its employees with flex time and flexible leave to handle any sort of family emergency (as well as backup childcare through Bright Horizons), Fatherly reports.3. SpotifyWith a generous six-month parental leave policy for employees, Spotify sets itself apart for recognizing what studies already know when Dads are an active presence in their babys life, they are better fathers later in their life.4. EtsyHeadquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Etsy offers all full-time employees 26 weeks of paid parental leave. Although it lacks on-site childcare, it does provide assistance programs for adopting pa rents and parents of special needs children, in addition to unlimited sick leave for you to use if your child gets the flu.5. TwitterBeyond its 20 weeks of paid parental leave, the social media giant wants to hook up its employees with a parent discount. When new parents return to work, they are eligible to join a group called Twitter Parents, which provides support to all parents in the company and works with many partners to provide discount rates on goods and services specifically for moms and dads, Fatherly reports.6. Unilever North AmericaUnilever offers fewer weeks of paid parental leave than its contemporaries on this list with a total of eight weeks of paid parental leave. But it does excel at other benefits The company reimburses would-be parents for adoption-related expenses up to $7,000 per year and offers onsite childcare and backup dependent care, a massive boon to those with little ones, Fatherly reports.7. IBMDads, partners, and adoptive parents get up to 12 weeks of paid leave that they can use in their childs first year.8. NetflixThe video streaming company offers a whopping 52 weeks of paid parental leave that parents can use at their discretion. But how many employees are taking advantage of this policy? We dont know. Its worth noting that Netflix does not offer statistics on how many people take advantage of its full offering, which is the sole reason that the company does not currently top out this list, Fatherly reports.9. DeloitteThe company recognizes that every family structure is different, and its 16 weeks of paid leave are purposefully gender- and generation-neutral. Any eligible professional may use the program to bond with a child through birth or adoption or to care for a spouse/domestic partner, parent, child and/or sibling with a serious health condition, the company states.The program has been popular with employees. I dont have children but I do have aging parents and I am very happy to see that included as an option for the future if needed, one employee shared.10. Bank of AmericaBeyond childcare subsidy, the company offers its 16 weeks ofpaid parental leave to both full-time and part-time working fathers. According to the company, an unusually high 96% of eligible male employees who welcome a new child take advantage of this benefit, which clearly speaks to a healthy work culture, Fatherly reports.- - - When parents do not have to worry about caring for their children, they can focus more on their jobs. Beyond the top 10 places, the rest of the best workplaces also shared characteristics of a healthy work culture they were more likely to offer generous paid leave, childcare subsidy, flextime, support groups, and bereavement time.The top-rated companies tend to have policies and cultures that recognize the importance of parental leave and the importance of supporting fathers as they come back into work and over the course of their childrens lives, Vicki Shabo, Vice President for Workplace Policies a nd Strategies at the National Partnership for Women Families, told Ladders. Although it is heartening and encouraging to see that these companies have adopted some best practices in supporting fathers at work, Im continually reminded that creating supportive workplace policies and culture needs to happen on a much larger scale.Here is Fatherlys complete 2018 list of the best workplaces for new dadsAmerican Express2017 Rank 3Number of Employees 20,000 in the United States, 32,000 globallyLenovo2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 4,338 in the United States, 50,000 globallySpotify2017 Rank 4Number of Employees 3,000Etsy2017 Rank 2Full-Time Employees 1,043Twitter2017 Rank 6Full-Time Employees 3,300Unilever North America2017 Rank n/aFull-Time Employees 7,851IBM2017 Rank 40Full-Time Employees 366,000Netflix2017 Rank 1Full-time employees 4,000Deloitte2017 Rank 10Full-Time Employees 55,608Bank of America2017 Rank 8Full-Time Employees 200,00Square, Inc.2017 Rank 11Full-Time Employees 2,438Lyft 2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 2,600Pinterest2017 Rank 12Number of Employees 1,200Patagonia2017 Rank 9Number of Employees 1,550CA Technologies2017 Rank 14Number of Employees 5,675LinkedIn2017 Rank 37Number of Employees 11,800VMware2017 Rank 7Number of Employees 12,267NVIDIA2017 Rank 15Number of Employees 6,519NBA2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 1,500 globallyGenentech2017 Rank 22Number of Employees 15,000Microsoft2017 Rank 17Number of Employees 124,293 globallyeBay2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 14,100facebook inc2017 Rank 5Number of Employees 37,666Airbnb2017 Rank 19Number of Employees 4,000+IKEA U.S.2017 Rank 45Number of Employees 18,838Johnson Johnson2017 Rank 21Number of Employees 134,000Prudential Financial2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 17,413Akamai Technologies2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 3,500 in the United States, 7,650 globallyHorizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 5,570Boston Scientific2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 14,142 in the U nited States, 29,000 globallyBASF2017 Rank 23Number of Employees 18,200Google2017 Rank 32Number of Employees 72,000The PNC Financial Services Group2017 Rank n/aFull-Time Employees 53,000Ultimate Software2017 Rank n/aFull-Time Employees 4,200Mastercard2017 Rank 24Full-Time Employees 13,400Paypal2017 Rank 31Full-Time Employees 18,700Zillow Group2017 Rank 27Number of Employees 3,250SP Global2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 5,462 in the United StatesCooley LLP2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 1,770State Street Corporation2017 Rank 26Capital One2017 Rank 20Number of Employees 42,600 full-time, 1,100 part-timeOppenheimerFunds2017 Rank 48Number of Employees 1,956Lexmark International, Inc.2017 Rank n/aNumber of Employees 2,220Intel Cooperation2017 Rank 30Number of Employees 50,682 full-time3M2017 Rank 28Number of Employees 36,364RSM2017 Rank n/aFull-time Employees 9,550+Bain Company2017 Rank 33Number of Employees 8,000Booz Allen Hamilton2017 Rank n/aFull-Time Employees 24,750Dow Jones Com pany2017 Rank n/aFull-time employees 2,819Vanguard2017 Rank 41Full-time employees 15,745