What does it mean to achieve work-life balance, and is it a sustainable approach to navigating the ebb and flow of your professional landscape? Although the reality of work-life balance continues to inspire widespread debate, most people are still aiming to carve out a career path that allows them to enjoy a meaningful, fulfilling personal life.
The companies featured on the list below strive to prioritize work-life balance, and they’re all hiring this month. These top organizations offer benefits like paid holidays, generous health and wellness perks, parental leave, flexible schedules, and Employee Assistance Programs. For example, Bombas’ culture of empathy extends to their employees. Their people-first approach supports personal well-being and professional balance through initiatives like mental health benefits, wellness perks, fitness subsidies, maternity and paternity leave, and unlimited time off. Other organizations like Protective help employees navigate work and life priorities with a range of benefits, including access to mental health resources, maternity and paternity leave, remote work opportunities, and paid time off.
No matter what your goals are, we want to help you make a decision that aligns with your needs. That’s why we encourage you to explore each company’s profile on The Muse. You’ll find important information about perks and benefits, office culture, and more. You’ll also get the inside scoop from real employees like Hannah Nooden, a software engineer at Atlassian who started at the company as an intern. “There’s a big emphasis on helping junior engineers grow,” she says. “That’s something I experienced both as an intern and a new grad here.”
Keep scrolling to learn more about these incredible employers and the variety of openings they’re looking to fill.
1. Atlassian
At Atlassian, we’re looking for people who believe in the power of teamwork and want to join us in accomplishing the impossible, together. With #TeamAnywhere you choose where you work best.
Our approach to distributed work empowers Atlassians to choose where, when, and how they deliver their best work.
We call this Team Anywhere, and we’re committed to it today, tomorrow, and for the next 100 years. Team Anywhere is built on openness and trust. We believe our people can deliver incredible results, make a difference, and find balance, while still prioritizing the things that matter to them most.
2. Bombas
Bombas is a comfort-focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. For every item purchased, a specially designed item is donated to a member of the homeless community. The company launched in 2013 after the founders learned that socks are the most requested clothing item at homeless shelters. With millions of pairs sold and donated, Bombas continues to innovate with new apparel while creating a positive impact. Inquisitive people who love to learn, understand the importance of giving, and embrace successes and failures are sure to find a place within the Bombas Hive. Bombas fosters a people-first approach—every decision is influenced by employees to ensure their personal and professional growth, fulfillment, and happiness.
3. Protective
We’re committed to helping our teammates be the best protectors they can be—that’s why we offer a wide range of benefits that equip our teammates with the right care for their health needs, as well as help them plan for retirement and build the right work-life balance. We ensure we have programs in place to support our employees’ needs, including an employee assistance program, digital and virtual mental health resources, short-term and long-term disability coverage, adoption assistance, paid time off, and paid and parental leave.
4. Rakuten International
Well-being Fridays (between May and August) and Rewarding Season are part of Rakuten’s commitment to a shared work culture that values and supports a healthy work-life balance. This time is for employees to restore, recharge, or revisit the things in life that give them purpose and joy.
Whether you choose to spend time with loved ones, pursue a passion, take on a volunteering project, engage in self-care, or enjoy the season, employees make the most of this dedicated time.
5. DISH
Our on-site culture is rooted in the philosophy that when you’re working, you’re at work and when you’re at home, you’re off. Additionally, we have a new resource group for employee well-being. The group’s main goal is to enhance the well-being of DISH/EchoStar employees by offering proactive mental health and wellness tools and resources via workshops and partnerships with teams across the company and employee resource groups (ERGs). They’re committed to cultivating a positive work environment and nurturing a balanced, healthy mental and emotional state through evidence-based approaches, empowering our employees to thrive personally and professionally.
6. Diageo
Diageo is a manufacturer, importer, and exporter of many of the most popular beverage alcohol brands in the world – with over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. North America is our largest market, and we are proud of our rich heritage, from a centuries-old bourbon recipe to aged Mexican tequilas and classic Caribbean spiced rum. Our 2,000+ people across North America are the custodians of our much-loved brands and play an essential role in their future success.
Join us, and you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a sustainable and more inclusive future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's individual passions, commitments and specialist skills. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you.
7. Opendoor
Our biggest strength at Opendoor is our people, and we’re focused on providing comprehensive perks, benefits, and resources that help our team members better serve our customers. This includes volunteer time off, employee assistance programs, mental and emotional health support, family planning, parental leave, pet insurance, and legal services. By supporting each other both personally and professionally, we can spend less time worrying and more time focused on our shared mission of powering life’s progress—one move at a time.
The Muse 2023 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Parental Benefits, Work Flexibility, and Vacation and Time Off
8. PitchBook Data
At PitchBook, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy and fun that reverberate throughout the company.
Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.
If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.
9. J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Joining J. J. Keller means joining an organization that trusts its associates and offers flexibility to achieve work-life balance. At J. J. Keller, we value flexibility, both in how and where our associates work. We’re excited to add great talent to our organization with many of our positions available to either work from home within the United States, on-site at our corporate campus in Neenah, WI, or hybrid.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including, but not limited to, flextime, paid time off (PTO), unpaid time off, paid time off day for U.S. Veterans and those currently serving, eight paid company holidays plus one paid floating holiday, paid volunteer hours, parental leave, on-site collaboration stations, free access to our onsite wellness clinic plus virtual healthcare services, free access to our onsite fitness center plus the app FLEX by FitnessOnDemand, wellness resources, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
10. ABeam Consulting
At ABeam Consulting, we consider work-life balance to be essential. Our comprehensive benefits package includes low-deductible medical, dental and vision plans, 401k employer match, generous PTO, hybrid and remote work opportunities, and maternity/paternity leave.
11. Pluralsight
At Pluralsight, we believe in flexibility and work-life harmony. Striving for personal growth and outstanding performance shouldn’t come at the cost of burnout. That’s why we offer remote and hybrid work arrangements, unlimited PTO (and we actually want you to use it), regional Summer Fridays, flexible schedules, up to 16 weeks of parental leave (plus four to six weeks flex return), a monthly wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources. Check out how Hannah Aldine, a solutions consultant, has experienced work-life balance at Pluralsight in the quote below:
“Work-life balance was a main consideration for me when I was looking for a role. Being able to work remotely, set my schedule, and have flexible working hours has been huge in being able to be there for my kids and make sure they’re taken care of. I’m also able to focus on work because I’m not stressed about having to strictly be at a desk from eight to five. I’ve appreciated that kind of emphasis, where I feel like we’re not just told that we can take time off, but leadership is showing us that we should take the time we’re given. We have unlimited PTO, so please go and take care of your family and yourself. Because you’re going to bring your best self to work when you know you’ve been practicing self-care and have some balance.”
12. ShiftKey
Honoring employees’ diverse needs is essential, and we offer a comprehensive program of competitive benefits, including medical insurance, robust dental and vision insurance, progressive paid time off (PTO), and floating holidays. Mental health and well-being are vital to our culture, and we provide support, including emotional health coverage, tools, and programs to manage general health and well-being needs. We maintain an inclusive and collaborative work environment that promotes authenticity and fosters recognition and a career-developing workplace.
13. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
Ironwood has a hybrid work environment, providing most employees with the option to work in the office or remotely. Our headquarters employees often come together three to five days each month, which helps strengthen our flexible and collaborative culture.
Ironwoodians value the flexibility of remote work and the power of in-person collaboration, and we strive to optimize both. Ironwood offers resources and invests in hybrid technologies, reflecting what we learned from our employees about optimizing their productivity and respecting family needs and personal choices. We balance personal autonomy, accountability, and an ownership mindset in how we approach each day.
14. Blueprint Medicines
At Blueprint Medicines, we’re on a mission to alleviate human suffering with life-changing medicines. We know that to truly make a difference, it’s crucial to prioritize our self-care, including healthcare, financial stability, mental and physical wellness, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. How do we achieve this? Through our wellness perks, mental health resources (including therapy sessions and self-paced courses), flexible schedules, an on-site gym, parental leaves, and a global midyear Mental Well-Being shutdown.
15. NAVEX
At NAVEX, we deeply value our team’s work-life balance. That’s why we proudly offer a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible schedules, wellness perks, employee assistance programs, eight hours of paid volunteer time, and our life-leave program.
16. TransUnion
TransUnion values work-life flexibility by providing benefits including, but not limited to, flexible time off for exempt associates, paid time off for nonexempt associates, tuition reimbursement, additional (following any short-term disability) ten weeks of parental leave with gradual return, adoption assistance, fertility coverage, spousal and domestic partner benefits, charity gift matching, employee stock purchase plan, retirement contributions with employer match, organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks, and access to TransUnion’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
The Muse 2023 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Parental Benefits, Work Flexibility, Financial and Retirement Benefits, Health and Wellness Benefits, and Vacation and Time Off
17. Booking.com
We have a total reward philosophy that encompasses financial compensation and other benefits. We aim to make it easier for you to experience everything that life has to offer—all the messy, beautiful, and joyful bits—on your terms so you can focus on what matters. We offer competitive compensation as well as thoughtful, valuable, and fun benefits. We want to promote your health and well-being, protect you from financial risks, support you and your family through major life events, and encourage you to experience the world.
Find out more: https://careers.booking.com/benefits/
The Muse 2023 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Office Life and Perks
18. Advia Credit Union
Here at Advia Credit Union, we know work-life balance is more than just the time you spend at work and the time you spend at home. It’s about supporting our employees through life and life events. Advia offers a hybrid work schedule for support roles: 60% in office/40% remote, three weeks paid parental leave after one year of service, an employer-paid Employee Assistance Program, free Teladoc 24/7 for part-time and full-time employees, an employer-sponsored wellness program, and paid volunteer hours to encourage engagement and volunteerism in our local communities.
The Muse 2023 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Health and Wellness Benefits
19. Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is diverse team of talent experts — AKA Cornerstars — who understand big ideas, solve problems, and focus on innovating new solutions that deliver great experiences for our customers and their people. Together, we are obsessed with helping our customers meet the future, ready with our leading AI-powered talent experience platform designed to unite technology, data and content and inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success at scale.
With Cornerstone, organizations modernize their learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success across their business. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and more than 125million users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages.
Here at The Muse, we partner with a lot of great companies to bring you insider looks at their offices and awesome job listings. These employers pay us to be featured on the site, but these Muse-worthy brands made this list not just because they want to be included, but because their culture, policies, and employee feedback showed us that they deserve to be.
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