Employee retention is one of the highest in the country at 97 percent. A company survey revealed that 98 percent of its employees rate the bank as meeting or exceeding their needs, and First Tennessee has been named by Forbes magazine as the most profitable financial institution in the country for the past five years, Brown said. Xerox Corp. The magazine cited a few of the benefits each company offers that pertain especially to working mothers. The clinics offer free mammograms and skin-cancer screenings and provide mothers with quiet rooms for nursing infants. Women working for computer giant IBM can take up to three years of leave after childbirth.
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Co. The corporation has built a new child development center at company headquarters, formed a network of local family child care homes for its employees, and formed an advisory board that will work to improve the quality and availability of child care throughout the state. MBNA is the world's largest independent issuer of bank credit cards in the world. Backup child care is provided so that employees have a place to bring their children when the babysitter's car breaks down or other unexpected circumstances disrupt their usual child care arrangements. Also, parents can take two hours off per week to volunteer in their child's school. The company pays them regular wages for the volunteer work.