Standard Chartered US Named to Seramount’s 2024 100 Best Companies List
17 Julio 2024 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Standard Chartered US (the “Bank”) announced today that it has
been named by Seramount as one of the 100 Best Companies for 2024.
This year’s winners continue to set the standard by providing
inclusive benefits for families, including paid gender-neutral
parental leave, subsidized childcare, bereavement leave after
miscarriage, reimbursement for fertility expenses, menopause
benefits, and increased mental health benefits for employees.
“At Standard Chartered, we believe that our culture is our
competitive advantage,” said Patricia Fuster, Standard Chartered’s
Chief Information Officer for Europe and Americas and Chair of
Americas’ Diversity and Inclusion Council. “By creating a work
environment where colleagues from all backgrounds can thrive and
grow in all aspects of their lives, we can better serve our clients
and the communities where we live and work. Being named to
Seramount’s 2024 100 Best Companies list is an acknowledgment of
the strength and further enhancement of our benefits program for
all colleagues.”
“Our 100 Best Companies have been setting the standard on what
is considered an inclusive workplace for parents and caregivers for
over 40 years,” says Subha V. Barry, President of Seramount.
“Thanks to their dedication, benefits that were considered
progressive are now considered the norm, like offering bereavement
leave after a miscarriage. The mental welfare of employees
continues to be a priority and we are thrilled to see almost 100%
of companies offering support in this area.”
Key findings from the 2024 100 Best Companies:
- The 100 Best Companies offer an average of 12 weeks of fully
paid gender-neutral parental leave for full-time employees, up from
11 weeks in 2023.
- Ninety-seven percent of the 100 Best Companies allow women to
use bereavement leave after a miscarriage, up from 91 percent in
2023. An average of 11 days of bereavement leave is offered to
women for miscarriages, up from nine days in 2023. And 93 percent
allow men to use bereavement leave for a partner’s miscarriage with
an average of nine days of bereavement leave, up from 90 percent
and eight days in 2023.
- Eighty-nine percent of the 100 Best Companies offer caregiving
leave, up from 85 percent in 2023. Sixty-seven percent of those
companies offer fully paid caregiving leave, up from 61 percent in
2023. Caregiving leave allows an employee to care for a sick family
member over an extended period of time.
- The 100 Best Companies cover an average of 83 percent of an
employee’s personal health insurance and 79 percent of an
employee’s family health insurance, up from 80 percent and 78
percent in 2023, respectively.
- Resources for new mothers have improved: 90 percent of the 100
Best Companies offer breast pumps, up from 88 percent in 2023; 73
percent offer transport facilities for breast milk, up from 67
percent in 2023; and 65 percent have lactation consultants
available 24 hours a day, up from 61 percent in 2023.
- More of the 100 Best Companies have Employee Resource Groups
(ERGs) for working parents (72 percent in 2024 v. 67 percent in
2023) and for caregivers (65 percent in 2024 v. 58 percent in
2023).
- Ninety-seven percent of the 100 Best Companies have policies
supporting workplace mental health and 87 percent have a mental
health and well-being work group, up from 95 percent and 79 percent
in 2023, respectively.
Standard Chartered US is also named Seramount’s Best Companies
for Multicultural Women, one of America’s 50 Most Community-Minded
Companies by The Civic 50, and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ and
Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplace-Certified organization.
Visit our Careers page if you want to learn more about a work
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and abilities.
About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international banking group, with a presence in
53 of the world’s most dynamic markets and serving clients in a
further 64. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through
our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in
our brand promise, here for good.
Our history in the US dates back to 1902, and we are currently
present in nine locations throughout the Americas. Our Americas
franchise focuses on financial institutions and select corporations
and plays a key role in facilitating trade and investment flows
between the Americas and Asia, Africa, the UK and Europe and the
Middle East.
Standard Chartered PLC is listed on the London and Hong Kong
stock exchanges.
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About Seramount
Seramount is a strategic professional services and research firm
dedicated to supporting high-performing, inclusive workplaces. Over
four decades, we've established a strong, data-driven understanding
of the employee experience, which lays the groundwork for
everything we do. Seramount partners with over 450 of the world’s
most influential companies, large and small, to offer pragmatic
solutions including best practice DEI research, workplace
assessment, employee learning and development, and talent sourcing.
These offerings empower companies to navigate a dynamic corporate
environment and to cultivate a resilient, connected workforce that
achieves extraordinary outcomes.
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