Better Companies for Flextime

One company at the forefront of the flextime option is Johnson & Johnson, the large pharmaceutical and consumer goods company with headquarters in Langhorne, PA and a large staff in New Brunswick, NJ.  They have 75% of their employees on flex time and offer a phase-back program with reduced hours for recent mothers.  Across the country, employers, large and small, offering a vast array of services and products, report high participation rates in flex time programs.  Surprisingly, a number of financial and management consulting firms have generous programs that affirm a balanced life.  Ernst & Young in NYC, offers a fully paid maternity leave for 14 weeks, a phase-back program and 95% of its workforce is on some sort of flex-time.

In addition to all the high tech firms on the west coast, the list goes on and on.  Some companies  On the east coast, some stand-outs include: Automatic Data Processing in Roseland, NJ; nonprofit Alliance for a Healthier Generation in NYC,  and Pearson, an information and educational firm in Upper Saddle River, NJ. Aon, a risk management company, based in Chicago and Astra Zeneca, a pharmaceutical company in Wilmington, Delaware have 85% of their workforce on flex-time.