How employers are bringing more benefits to working parents

Published September 19, 2024 12:00 PM EDT 3 Min Read

Juggling parenthood and work responsibilities is no easy task, leading some employees to feel like they are not finding success in either role at times. To address this, some companies are providing more benefits for parents and other caretakers.

At EY, benefits for parents go further than parental leave. Benefits including childcare support, free tutoring and college application coaching, career and family transition coaching and its EAP, which provides 25 free mental health coaching sessions a year for all family members, are all designed to strengthen the entire family.

EY’s program, Pathways to Parenthood, provides up to $50,000 for expenses related to infertility, surrogacy, egg and sperm preservation, as well as adoption, 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and the option of a flexible work arrangement post-leave to help employees successfully transition back to their roles, while juggling parenthood.

“For the first year, I came back to work four days a week,” Alice Potts, experience manager at EY and mother to twins, told Employee Benefit News. “I really had time to connect with my [kids] early on and build a wonderful relationship. Even now I can pick up my kids from school, play with them, and then come back online and work.”

Courtney Hoff Dockerty

Writer, Growth Content

Courtney Hoff Dockerty is a writer for Growth Content at Arizent.

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