In modern days we often find a mother at work who's family could benefit from flexible work hours to attend to children when they are sick. Mothers of young children benefit from lactation rooms and on-site day-care facilities. Bonnier Corporation's online division, Working Mother, recently published a list of the top 100 companies to work for in the United States which describes the reasons why each was chosen in detail. Here is a complete listing of the companies chosen for excellent family friendly benefits:

Family Friendly Company Winners A-D

  • Abbott
  • Accenture
  • Allstate Insurance
  • American Electric Power
  • American Express
  • AOL
  • Arnold & Porter
  • AstraZeneca
  • Automatic Data Processing
  • Bain & Co.
  • Bank of America
  • Baptist Health South Florida
  • Bayer
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
  • Bon Secours Richmond Health System
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Boston Consulting Group
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Capital One Financial
  • Carlson
  • Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
  • Children's Memorial Hospital
  • Chrysler
  • Cisco
  • Citi
  • ColgatePalmolive
  • Cornell University
  • Covington & Burling
  • Credit Suisse
  • Dell
  • Deloitte
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Diageo North America
  • Discovery Communications
  • Dow Corning
  • DuPont

Family Friendly Employer Winners E-L

  • Eli Lilly and Co.
  • Ernst & Young
  • FINRA
  • First Horizon National
  • First National Bank
  • Freddie Mac
  • GE
  • General Mills
  • GlaxoSmith-Kline
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Grant Thornton
  • Hallmark Cards
  • HCA Virginia Health System
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman
  • Kellogg
  • KPMG
  • Kraft Foods
  • Lego Systems

Family Friendly Corporation Winners M-R

  • March of Dimes Foundation
  • Marriott International
  • MassMutual Financial Group
  • MasterCard Worldwide
  • The McGraw-Hill Companies
  • McKinsey & Co.
  • Merck & Co.
  • Mercy Health System
  • Metlife
  • Microsoft
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Morgan Stanley
  • New York Life Insurance
  • Northern Trust
  • Northwestern Memorial Healthcare
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals
  • Patagonia
  • Pearson
  • Pfizer
  • The Phoenix Companies
  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  • Pitt County Memorial Hospital
  • PNC Financial Services Group
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Principal Financial Group
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Providence Health & Services Alaska
  • Prudential Financial
  • RSM McGladrey

Family Friendly Company Winners S-Z

  • S.C. Johnson & Son
  • Sanofi-aventis
  • Scripps Health
  • Texas Instruments
  • TriHealth
  • Turner Broadcasting System
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
  • VCU Health System
  • Verizon Communications
  • WellPoint
  • Wellstar Health System
  • Yale-New Haven Hospital

Working Mother Friendly Companies

Extensive research was completed on these top 100 companies comparing everything from how many women are senior executives to which have a nurse hot line for late night health issues with children. Making a choice where to work while raising a family can be very tedious. This type of extensive research being made available online makes decisions much easier. Employers need to realize that offering family friendly benefits can be a strong recruiting tool for top talent who just also happen to be raising children.