Fifty Best Companies

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Conceive salutes this year’s Top 50 Companies for recognizing that helping employees to build their families and juggle work and home lives makes good business sense no matter what the state of the economy.

Introduction
Our third annual listing of the most fertility- and adoption-friendly workplaces in America.

Top 10 Companies
Conceive surveyed companies across the country to find out which are most generous when it comes to family-building benefits for their employees. Of the hundreds and hundreds we queried, and the 50 we singled out as exemplary, here are the best of the best.

The List
Who are the 50 Best winners, and what benefits do they offer? The information is all here. . .

Boost Your Fertility & Adoption Benefits
There’s no federal mandate on infertility coverage, but 15 states have enacted legislation requiring insurance companies to cover or offer coverage for fertility treatments.

Excellent Extras
In addition to their coverage for infertility treatments or financial help with adoptions, many of our winning companies offer other exceptional family-friendly benefits.

Our #1 Company, Citizens Financial Group/RBS Americas: A Family Who Benefited
For the second year in a row, Conceive ranks Citizens Financial Group/RBS Americas as No. 1 among the 50 Best Fertility-Friendly and Adoption-Friendly Companies in the United States. Read one family's story to find out why.

Arnold & Porter: A Family Who Benefited
They are a two-career professional couple together since their college days. In their mid-30s they bought a big suburban home in a community with good schools and parks; they were ready to start a family. More. . .

Baker & McKenzie: A Family Who Benefited
Barbara Freeman estimates that she and her husband Jeff spent less than $500 in out-of-pocket expenses for the fertility treatments that helped bring them their two beautiful daughters. More. . .

Barilla America: A Family Who Benefited
“Originally I was going to recommend a lower number, but within 30 seconds the executive committee decided ‘You know what, this is the right thing to do. Let’s increase the [adoption] benefit to $12,000, [and] let’s give them a week off to bond with that new addition.’” Read how one family added to their ranks thanks to this generous benefit. . .

The Boston Consulting Group: A Family Who Benefited
When Christine Barton was growing up in a small town in Texas, she didn’t have any role models of successful high-achieving women who were having it all—high-powered career, marriage, and children. More. . .

Deutsche Bank: A Family Who Benefited
In 2006, Deutsche Bank drastically beefed up its family-friendly benefits in response to an internal analysis that revealed low retention rates of women after pregnancy. Read about how one family brought home two little girls thanks to generous new benefits. . .

Exceptional Software Strategies Inc.: A Family Who Benefited
By the late 1990s, Chris Hamlet, 34, a senior GIS administrator at Exceptional Software Strategies, and his wife Debra, 36, had completed their family: Son Brandon was born in 1995 and daughter Megan in 1997. More. . .

Harvard University: A Family Who Benefited
A few months after they married in 1989, then 29-year-old Nancy Ferrari and her husband Greg Gallagher, then 27, tried to start a family. Seven years of grueling treatments for unexplained infertility followed. More. . .