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28 Companies With Unbelievable Work-Life Balance

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An inside look at Asana’s NYC office, as seen on The Muse.

No matter how much you love your job, it’s not the only thing in your life, right? Working for a company that lets you thrive outside of work can be a game changer—which is why we’re highlighting the following list of companies that offer perks and benefits that promote work-life balance.

Every company handles work-life balance differently, so you can find what best suits you. For example, Dolby employees get every other Friday off to recharge; Asana team members can take a sabbatical every four years; and McMaster-Carr has up to 24 weeks of parental leave plus mental health benefits and wellness stipends. And these are just the start.

Whether you need support through milestone moments or want everyday perks that help you live your best life, the companies here are making work-life balance a reality.

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Dolby

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Working at Dolby

Founded in 1965 by the late Ray Dolby, Dolby was born out of its founder’s passion for connecting science and art. The present-day company reflects the innovative and creative vision of its namesake. True to its origins, Dolby continues to produce cutting-edge audio and visual technologies that enhance and transform storytelling, entertainment, and media.

At Dolby, we look at the whole picture. From content creation to the technology that delivers spectacular experiences, and the key component to all of this is YOU. Many of our U.S. employees get every other Friday off, that’s 26 extra days off per year! That three-day weekend every other week is a chance to re-focus, re-energize and most importantly take care of your well-being—and we offer a whole program for that focusing on four key elements—physical, emotional, financial and community—these are the foundation for everything we do in well-being. We also have a flexible mindset when it comes to getting the job done; a combination of working from your desk or ours, your kitchen or ours. We believe that everyone’s life is unique and so is the way you work!

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TriNetX

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Working at TriNetX

TriNetX is a data and analytics company that partners with healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical companies across the globe to conduct research and enhance clinical trials leveraging real-world data. They look for people who are creative, intuitive, and curious about science and the world. Collaboration is big at TriNetX, as everyone is working towards a common goal. The TriNetX company culture encourages continuous professional growth, and employees take pride in the impact their work makes on the world.

TriNetX understands the importance of work-life balance—though the team prefers the term work-life fit. Many employees work remotely, and most based out of the Cambridge, MA headquarters choose a hybrid work model. With a generous unlimited PTO policy, TriNetX employees can find the right fit between growing their careers and prioritizing personal and family time. “I know that every one of our employees has a rich life outside of the office, and we urge [them] to spend time with loved ones, recharge, engage in healthy lifestyle habits, and come to join us all ready to work hard and make TriNetX a success,” says Gadi Lachman, President and CEO of TriNetX.

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Gentle Dental

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Working at Gentle Dental

Gentle Dental provides high-quality comprehensive care including general dentistry, orthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, pedodontics, prosthodontic, and oral surgery. Gentle Dental serves patients in 180 different locations in eight western states under the brands Gentle Dental and Smile Keepers. Each team member is patient-driven and proves time and time again that group dentistry can provide a better, more ethical, and more comprehensive alternative for patients.

At Gentle Dental, we provide our teams with flexible schedules that can be fully customized to their needs on a full-time and part-time basis. This includes creating schedules that allow for school runs, schedules that are ideal for parents returning to the workforce, Saturday only schedules, and opportunities to care for patients on specific days of the week.

For all of our positions and opportunities, we have dedicated teams in place to focus on managing the business so our clinical teams can focus on patients. This means that our providers never have to take their work home with them.

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Protective

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Working at Protective

Our values — doing the right thing, serving people, building trust and aspiring for better — guide how we treat our customers as much as they guide how we treat our people. We’re committed to your personal and career development so you can make an impact no matter where you are in your career journey. At Protective, you can unlock your potential with abundant learning and development initiatives that can help you grow new skillsets and improve existing ones.

Protective is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and supported by both a robust virtual workforce and core sites in Cincinnati and St. Louis. We help all teammates navigate work and life priorities with in-office amenities, virtual resources and comprehensive benefits. When our team of protectors is healthy and happy, we believe our overall work environment is improved.

Bring your own perspective and let your unique experience shine through so we can create a better future together — because we're all protectors.

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Capital One

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Working at Capital One

We’re working on some bold, transformative things—like changing banking for good. What’s in it for you? A career surrounded by brilliant minds. People from different backgrounds, experiences, and education levels. Coming together to create a sense of belonging. Supporting you where you are and where you want to be. That’s life at Capital One.

Capital One’s perks and benefits are progressive and industry leading. We have always believed in the importance of providing comprehensive and expansive benefits to complement and contribute to our associates’ total compensation package. For example, we were one of the first major companies to offer same-sex marriage benefits back in 1997 and we have since continued to build our benefits portfolio to include a host of other LGBTQ+ friendly offerings, from fertility coverage to reimbursements for associates who chose to build their families through adoption and surrogacy, to domestic partner benefits and health coverage for gender reassignment. In addition, Capital One’s campuses offer fitness facilities, cafés and, at certain locations, onsite health services for associates and their families. Our benefits package is unique as it provides flexibility for you to determine your path to health, wealth and life support.

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TransUnion

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Working at TransUnion

More than a mere credit reporting agency, TransUnion also offers sophisticated data information regarding global risks in order to assist clients in making important business decisions. The organization is committed to providing the most complete and multidimensional information available to more than 500 million customers, at 45,000 companies, in 33 countries around the world.

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Jumio

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Working at Jumio

When you work for Jumio, you’re part of a global team striving for excellence, supporting one another, and having a good time along the way. With 11 offices across the world, Jumio offers a truly global culture that’s characterized by our shared IDEAL values: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, and Leading Innovation.
Jumio provides people with the best of both worlds: We retain the agility of a new startup with the backing and budgets of a global market leader. It’s an environment with high levels of autonomy that offers accelerated career growth. Best of all, it’s a setting where one person can make a meaningful and visible difference to their career, the company’s success, and to the wider mission of eliminating identity fraud.

Jumio is founded on the principle of trust, and that includes our work environment. We empower our employees to work from one of our modern offices or work remotely, depending on what makes sense for your role and individual needs. Besides flexibility in work location, we also trust you to create and follow your own schedule. We thrive on collaboration and accountability, and our hybrid work environment enables Jumio employees to bring their best selves to work, all around the world.

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Health-E Commerce

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Working at Health-E Commerce

Health-E Commerce is a consumer health and wellness online retailer, comprising four brands: FSA Store, HSA Store, WellDeserved Health, and Caring Mill. Since 2010, we have launched direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands aimed at simplifying the U.S. tax-free healthcare market and helping Americans and companies benefit better from workplace benefits and wellness and health spending programs.

We are passionate about helping consumers to improve their health and maximize their savings through qualified shopping and education. Our websites, eligibility lists, and content help consumers understand, manage, and use their benefits. We also advocate for the eligibility of important new product categories, such as OTC meds and feminine care, to increase the types of everyday products that are eligible.

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Bounteous

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Working at Bounteous

When you join Bounteous, you’re joining a global team that respects and adopts diverse perspectives to meaningfully transform the company, our clients, and our collective communities. From day one you’re supported through a variety of programs and offerings that prioritize your health and wellness. With remote-first work options, global collaboration centers, flexible time off policies, innovative health benefits, and more, you’re encouraged to work how and where you perform best. Your growth is supported with career advancement opportunities. Team members are empowered by belonging with an inclusive, people-first culture.

At Bounteous, we have developed a number of programs to support mental well-being, such as our employee resource group, “b: mindful,” which has the goal of destigmatizing mental health in the workplace. Our take-what-you-need PTO policy continues to be a highlight for our team members, too. We’ve learned that healthy minds and bodies are paramount to the success of our business. We are proactively improving wellness and addressing Zoom fatigue and burnout with a new pilot program called Quiet Hours, a four-hour block of time for uninterrupted focus. Bounteous also offers a no-cost employee assistance program that provides mental health counseling, financial planning assistance and many other services.

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Blueprint Medicines

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Working at Blueprint Medicines

Blueprint Medicines is a global precision therapy company that aims to invent life-changing therapies for people with cancer and rare diseases. Patients are at the center of everything we do. We know that in order to make a difference in their lives, we must create an environment where our employees—also known as the Blue Crew—can do their best work. Our culture of transparency, curiosity, and diversity pushes us to lead with integrity, act courageously, and draw upon a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to make decisions. Ideas come from everywhere, from the C-suite to new hires, and each day we commit to approach one another with respect and trust.

We care deeply about making a profound impact where it matters most. Learn more about who we are and explore our career opportunities below to join us on this journey.

Saving lives is intense work, and we can’t do it unless we take care of ourselves. Our total rewards programs are designed to support all facets of wellbeing—physical, mental, financial and emotional—so that our people can focus on what brought them to Blueprint—saving lives! The crux of our offerings lies in our standout culture. We’ve cultivated a community that puts people first and provides the flexibility necessary to prioritize what’s most important at any given moment. Additionally, our comprehensive programs deliver choice and flexibility to employees and their families that go well beyond traditional benefits. Our people are unique individuals with diverse needs and expectations, and we strive to create programs that ensure they remain healthy, motivated and cared for. We’re constantly taking pulse checks and reevaluating our offerings to make sure they continue to serve our people and their loved ones. At Blueprint Medicines, you’re more than an employee—you’re part of the Blue Crew!

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Coleman Research

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Working at Coleman Research

We help thousands of clients get answers to their most critical questions. Rather than spending hours reading research reports or traveling to meet people at conferences, our clients come to us to connect them directly with industry experts. We also facilitate custom surveys and moderated teleconference events, providing our clients with additional ways to learn. As we continue to grow, the relationships we’ve built with our clients, experts, and colleagues remain at the heart of our business.

Coleman Research puts the well-being of their employees at the forefront and provides a work environment that enables team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance. With a responsible time off policy, employees are able to take time away from work when they need it. Team members also have flexibility with where they work—whether it’s from one of their global hub offices, at one of 800+ coworking spaces or working remotely from home. No matter where you’re located, Coleman believes in building the right team—wherever you are.

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Chick-fil-A, Inc.

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Working at Chick-fil-A, Inc.

The Chick-fil-A brand is known for its, particularly delicious, original chicken sandwich. Since its founding in 1967, the Company has led with its guiding principle of serving others. Today, Chick-fil-A, Inc. is focused on continuing to innovate using the latest technology to better serve and nourish the local communities in which the more than 3,000+ franchised restaurants are located.

This profile spotlights the Chick-fil-A headquarters (known as the Support Center). The Company believes that work should be full of life and that Corporate employees should be able to bring all of who they are to the task at hand. Chick-fil-A cares for its people and gives them the tools to take on meaningful work for the greater good.

Chick-fil-A’s restaurants have long been renowned for their commitment to service and heartfelt hospitality. The same Culture of Care infuses the beloved brand’s Atlanta-based Corporate Support Center, and employees report that they feel well-served by policies that emphasize balance, wellness and flexibility. Chick-fil-A, Inc. staffers work in a predominantly hybrid work environment and receive industry-leading PTO and benefits packages that include fully paid healthcare premiums, wellness benefits that stretch beyond the on-site gym, access to personalized coaching, on-site childcare, elder-care assistance and more.

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McMaster-Carr

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Working at McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is an e-commerce company offering more than half a million products used to keep businesses in motion. The company owes its success to experimentation and innovation and invites team members to put their creativity to work. Whether the job is automating distribution operations, researching new products, or improving the company’s app, people flourish when they love to learn and pursue ambitious goals. An emphasis on curiosity and development leads to hiring for capability more than skill and celebrates diverse studies, experiences, backgrounds and identities. McMaster-Carr’s commitment to an inclusive workplace is evident in the way they form teams and develop on-site resources.

Work is just one part of a full life at McMaster-Carr. Teams have the flexibility of remote work and the ability to meet in-person for collaboration and connection. Freedom from returning messages outside of business hours creates space for personal pursuits like time with family, use of their unlimited tuition benefit and volunteerism. People are encouraged to use paid time off to unplug and recharge plus new parents benefit from up to 24 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave. Self-care is supported by comprehensive mental health benefits, including free therapy sessions, and stipends for exercise classes, marathons and health memberships.

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Outbrain

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Working at Outbrain

Headquartered in New York City with a global presence across 18 offices, Outbrain was founded to create the first discovery feed of content on the open web. Today, we continue to innovate as the preferred interest-based, end-to-end native technology fueling exploration and discovery for one third of the world’s Internet-connected population. Outbrain creates the most engaging discovery experiences for people on the web with their Smartfeed technology on the world’s most well-recognized media companies—from MSN, CNN, BBC, and The Washington Post to The Guardian and Sky News.
Website: https://www.outbrain.com/

We focus on getting things done instead of where or when it gets done. With a hybrid working model, we work how it best suits us—we come to the office for collaboration and stay at home to focus and re-energize. But we don't stop there. As a people-first company, we believe mental health and physical health are extremely important. We offer our employees a free gym membership to any of our partner gyms, or a $65 per month reimbursement for a gym of their choosing. Through our Employee Assistant Program, we also offer mental wellness resources and access to telehealth through our medical plans. We offer other perks too, such as 31 days off each year, consisting of 13 set holidays and 18 PTO days; unlimited sick days; and a $300 work-from-home stipend.

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NAVEX

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Working at NAVEX

We're a team of people making a difference doing what we love. Our culture is highly collaborative; we think creatively, thrive on achieving excellence, and are passionate about producing incredible results. We proudly embrace our team's diversity and advocate an environment where inclusion is at the forefront of how we engage with each other. If you believe in doing the right things right, we're looking for people just like you.

At NAVEX, we work to create the most valuable, inclusive, and healthy work environment. That includes providing a space with great benefits. Employees can work entirely remotely to accommodate family and home life or head into one of our global offices. The decision to have permanent work-from-home options comes from listening to our employees and understanding their needs. Creating a healthy workspace for both the mind and body, we have implemented our Live Well program. Employees are encouraged to participate in activities and even provided free access to the Calm app. Participants can earn fitness products and other fun items!

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Atlassian

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Working at Atlassian

Atlassian builds enterprise software that helps every member of every team and department stay on track, on point, and on top of their game. Atlassian develops products geared towards software developers and project managers, including its first application, JIRA, which helps track issues within a project, making it indispensable to teams around the world.

At Atlassian we understand that life happens outside of work. That's why we don't expect a typical schedule to work for everyone. We offer flexibility for you to do your best work in a way that works for you, from a place that works for you. Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and with our Team Anywhere model, we hire people in any country where we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap with their team. In addition, we offer generous paid time off policies around the world and encourage all employees to take 5 paid days each financial year to volunteer at their favorite charity.

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Kohl's

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Working at Kohl's

Kohl’s is an omnichannel retailer with over 1,100 stores stocked with amazing products—including national and exclusive brands their customers know and love. The company’s purpose is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives—with a goal of being the most engaging retailer in America. Kohl’s associates explore, design, and develop new ways to make shopping experiences effortless and unique by leveraging bold innovations that push boundaries and revolutionize the way customers shop.

Our Wellness Centers are a unique benefit provided to associates at corporate locations, credit and customer service centers, distribution centers and e-commerce fulfillment centers. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Services, preventive exams, lab services, physical therapy, health coaching, and treatment for routine illnesses are administered by compassionate and experienced health care professionals.

Mental health is a critical component of our total well-being. To help foster our associates’ total well-being, we’ve elevated our workplace culture to better support our associates’ mental well-being journeys. Be Well at Kohl’s provides resources, benefits, offerings and more for associates and their families that focus on mental well-being and health.

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CarGurus

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Working at CarGurus

Car shopping is complicated. At CarGurus, we use data and technology to make it simple, giving people the information and tools they need to confidently find, buy, finance, or sell a car. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, innovation, and fun. Expect the feel of a startup backed by a proven business model and sustainable growth. We’re always building new ways to bring trust and transparency to car shopping—come join us for the ride!

Our hybrid working model, robust benefits, and thoughtful perks help CarGurus’ employees find flexibility and balance. These include unlimited personal time off, abundant vacation days, and a 1-month sabbatical after 5 and 10 years. We offer extensive parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus 15-day gradual return for the former. Paying 100% of commuting costs and providing free lunch makes in-office days easier and more fun for all. Gurus also get several mental health days off a year, subscriptions to premium meditation and fitness apps, access to Care.com for child, senior, pet, and home care services, and much more!

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.

Think your company should be on a list like this? Learn more and get in touch!