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  Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield – Winner 2022, Best for All Families

  Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield strive to reflect the dynamism and diversity of the communities within which they operate and have put measures in place to achieve the best possible balance between work and home life for their employees. 

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  Santander – Finalist 2022, Best for All Families

  Santander has implemented a broad range of measures designed to support family diversity and give their 20,000 employees the opportunity to thrive. 

• Henmans LLP, Finalist 2012, Best for Career Progression for Flexible Workers Award

  Henmans LLP is a law firm based in Oxford, employing 123 people. The firm has a commitment to work-life balance and believes that flexible working is no impediment to career development and progression. Performance and motivation are key, and the firm looks to reward these characteristics in its employees regardless of their working pattern. The…

• Northern Trust, Winner 2012, The Lexington Gray Best for Flexible Working Award

  Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, Northern Trust is a financial services company employing 1,400 across Europe, Middle East and Africa. (EMEA).  Like many organisations, they have a suite of flexible working policies on offer, but they recognise that it is the day-to-day uptake and use of these policies which is the real test…

• Barclays, Finalist 2012, The Lexington Gray Best for Flexible Working Award

  Barclays is a large bank employing over 140,000 people globally. Since 2002 they have made flexible working available to all staff, as part of a business wide focus on attracting and retaining talent. The drivers to promoting flexibility have been numerous: strengthening employee engagement; becoming a destination ‘employer of choice’; improving female retention and career…

• Jaguar Land Rover, Finalist 2011, Best for Career Progression Award

  One of the barriers identified by women is the ability to balance home and work life. Since 2009 a total of 124 women have received training around career development, planning, coaching, leadership etc. A number of those attending have flexible working arrangements. The feedback from participants, has said that it has allowed them to reflect…

• J.P. Morgan, Finalist 2016, The Centrica Best for Modern Families Award

  Key features A wide ranging approach to diversity covering recruitment, employee networks, provision of faith rooms and support for those on global assignments. Investment in modern families, providing private medical insurance that subsidises fertility treatment as well as investing in staff networks. Staff networks are taken seriously and respected with nearly 40 per cent of…

• Pinsent Masons LLP, Winner 2016, The Centrica Best for Modern Families Award

  Key features All employees are able to access family support and work-life policies and 24 per cent of the workforce works flexibly. Flexibility has significantly increased retention – turnover in the corporate team reduced from 30.2 per cent to 17.5 per cent Project Sky addresses gender imbalance at senior levels – de-stigmatising working less than…

• West Dunbartonshire Council, Commended 2015, The Cityfathers Best for all Stages of Fatherhood Award

  West Dunbartonshire Council has shown that it is fully committed to supporting working fathers to achieve balance between work and family life. The council’s workforce is predominantly female (71%) and it is widely recognised that women are more likely to undertake caring responsibilities and to work flexibly and/or part-time. Through encouraging working fathers to take…

• Hogan Lovells, Finalist 2015, The Citymothers Best for all Stages of Motherhood Award

  Hogan Lovells is dedicated to supporting its talented female employees at all stages of motherhood.  In order to do this it has increased focus on gender diversity throughout its talent pipeline as part of its Global Diversity Business Plan.  Hogan Lovells offers mothers generous benefits to help them achieve a greater work–life balance and provides…

• iCrossing, Finalist 2015, The Cityfathers Best for all Stages of Fatherhood Award

  iCrossing has demonstrated its totally flexible approach to achieving balance between work and home life through the way it considers fathers. This approach is based on a well-considered and well-executed business case: the company is aware that, in the digital industry, demand is high for the most talented experts and tenure can be short. It…

• Ford, Commended 2013, The National Grid Best for all Stages of Fatherhood Award

  Sector: Engineering/Manufacturing Location: UK Employees: 11,200 Ford has taken an interesting approach to supporting fathers in the workplace, providing not only good policies and opportunities for fathers to combine work and family life, but also taking a wider view of what it means to be a father through work that it does within the local…