The best family-friendly companies to work for in 2025
Looking for a company that truly supports family life and career? You’re in the right place. We’ve curated a list of companies that understand the importance of flexibility, support, and balance for parents and caregivers.
8th Apr 2025
This blog will cover:
- The top-rated family-friendly companies to work for in 2025
- What family-first policies and benefits look like in practice
- How leading employers are supporting parents and caregivers
- Examples of standout benefits across different industries
- What makes a company truly family-friendly today
Creating a truly family-friendly workplace means more than just offering parental leave. It is about building environments where people can thrive both at work and at home. From flexible hours to supportive cultures for caregivers, some of the organisations featured here (including several 2025 Flexa Award winners) are showing how work-life balance can be more than a perk. It can be a priority.
Family-friendly working is not one-size-fits-all. It is adaptable, inclusive, and designed to support every stage of life.
Discover the companies that are redefining what it means to support families in the workplace in 2025.
What are the best family-friendly companies to work for in 2025?
Mars UK: Producing some of the world’s best-loved brands, Mars’ team of 140,000+ associates are taking action every day toward the world they want tomorrow.
❤️ Mars' family-friendly benefits include part time roles, pregnancy support, enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay, family health insurance and more!
Virgin Media O2: An award-winning fibre broadband provider & telecommunications company. Virgin Media O2 manage 47 million UK connections across broadband, mobile, TV and home phone and have around 18,000 colleagues, working hard to provide the very best connectivity to their valued customers.
❤️ Virgin Media O2's benefits include shared parental leave, enhanced maternity leave (26 weeks at full pay), enhanced paternity leave (14 weeks at full pay), job sharing and part time roles.
Mott MacDonald: Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. They are a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Everywhere around the world, people’s needs and aspirations are changing, fast.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Mott MacDonald include shared parental leave (they match up to 24 weeks full pay), enhanced maternity leave (26 weeks full pay) and part time roles.
NHBC: NHBC is the UK's leading provider of warranty and insurance for new-build homes. Their purpose is to raise standards in house building by championing high-quality homes and protecting homeowners.
❤️ NHBC's family friendly benefits include family health insurance, enhanced paternity leave (3 months full pay), enhanced maternity leave (26 weeks full pay), pregnancy support and fertility treatment leave.
Mondelēz International: Mondelēz International is a multinational confectionary, food and beverage company that has been making treats in the UK for nearly two hundred years.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Mondelēz International include enhanced paternity leave,
shared parental leave, tax-free childcare and enhanced maternity leave.
BT Group: With over 175 years of heritage, BT is the flagship business brand of BT Group. They are a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at BT Group include enhanced maternity leave (18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory), enhanced paternity leave (18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay, 6 months statutory), job sharing and part-time roles.
Adaptavist Group: The Adaptavist Group are experts at delivering innovative software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, monday.com, Aha!, GitLab, and many more.
❤️ Adaptavist's family friendly benefits include shared parental leave, fertility treatment leave, enhanced paternity leave (12 weeks full pay from day 1), enhanced maternity leave (26 weeks full pay from day 1) and compressed hours.
MONY Group: MONY Group is the UK’s leading price comparison website - providing free, online tools to help people manage, save and grow their money, by enabling them to compare and switch Insurance, Money and Home products.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at MONY Group include shared parental leave, enhanced paternity leave, enhanced maternity leave, part-time roles and fertility treatment leave.
Microsoft: Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.
❤️ Microsoft's family-friendly benefits include shared parental leave, enhanced paternity leave, job sharing and childcare credits.
Amplifi: A data management consultancy that believes as long as work is done, employees can work in a way that works for them.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Amplifi include enhanced paternity leave, enhanced maternity leave, shared parental leave, family health insurance, part-time hours and job sharing.
Boomi: Boomi is helping companies around the world connect data, people, and devices quickly and easily to advance digital transformation and deliver great customer experiences.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Boomi include shared parental leave, compressed hours and paid parental leave.
Vodafone: Vodafone is a leading international Telco serving 300 million customers. Their strong belief is that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us.
❤️ Vodafone's family-friendly benefits include enhanced maternity and paternity leave (16 weeks (paid) with a phased return to work over 6 months), flexible working and more.
SAP: SAP is a market leader in enterprise software. Thier applications and services enable business and public customers across 25 industries to operate profitably and adapt continuously.
❤️ SAP offers employees enhanced maternity and paternity leave, returnships, shared parental leave, fertility benefits, onsite childcare and more!
Vattenfall: Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21,000 employees. For more than 100 years they have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Vattenfall include enhanced maternity and paternity leave, part time hours and shared parental leave.
Maersk: With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries Maersk is a global leader in logistics services and can offer you the opportunity to grow and evolve in a truly diverse workplace.
❤️ Maersk's family-friendly benefits include part time hours, compressed hours, enhanced maternity leave and more.
BAE Systems : BAE Systems help customers to stay a step ahead when protecting people and national security, critical infrastructure and vital information. They provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions and employ a skilled workforce of 107,000 people in more than 40 countries.
❤️ BAE System's family-friendly benefits include enhanced maternity and paternity leave, job sharing, part time hours, compressed hours, shared parental leave and more.
Anglian Water Services: Anglian Water manage, supply, and recycle water for the driest region in the UK. Guided by the passion behind “Love Every Drop”, their commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service and transforming the way water is valued by everyone is at the core of their mission.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits include enhanced maternity and paternity leave, shared parental leave, job sharing, part time hours and more.
Atom Bank: Atom Bank were founded in 2014 as the UK’s first app-based bank, and were the country’s first digital only bank to be granted a regulatory licence.
❤️ Atom Bank offers employees enhanced maternity leave, enhanced paternity leave (4 weeks inc 2 weeks statutory topped up to full pay), part time hours, job sharing and shared parental leave.
Bradshaw Advisory: Bradshaw Advisory helps clients navigate, influence and solve policy challenges by bringing together a team of senior experts in economics, data, policy and public affairs.
❤️ Family-friendly benefits at Bradshaw Advisory include a nursery salary sacrifice scheme, family health insurance, job sharing, part time hours, compressed hours and enhanced paternity and maternity leave.
Tangle Teezer: Tangle Teezer offers an online store for various types of hair products.
❤️ Tangle Teezer offers employees fertility treatment leave, adoption leave, compressed hours and more.
FAQs about family-friendly companies and benefits in 2025
1. What makes a company family-friendly?
A truly family-friendly company supports every stage of life. That means offering flexibility, parental leave, and benefits that go beyond the basics—like fertility treatment leave, phased return to work, and health insurance for families.
2. Which companies are leading the way in family-friendly policies in 2025?
Organisations such as Mars UK, Virgin Media O2, Mott MacDonald, NHBC, Adaptavist Group, and Vodafone are among those setting the standard in 2025. Many of them are also Flexa Award winners for their commitment to family-first cultures.
3. What are some examples of family-friendly benefits offered by these companies?
Top benefits include enhanced maternity and paternity leave, shared parental leave, fertility and adoption leave, flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, and part-time options. Some companies even offer unique perks such as ‘Pawternity Leave’ and phased return-to-work programmes.
4. Why are family-friendly benefits so important for employees?
These benefits help working parents and caregivers manage their responsibilities at home and at work, reducing stress and improving retention. A family-first approach helps people feel supported through life’s major transitions, not just during parental leave.
5. How do family-friendly policies benefit employers?
Companies that invest in family-friendly cultures attract and retain top talent, improve employee engagement, and enhance their reputation as inclusive employers. Supporting family life also leads to better productivity and higher job satisfaction.
6. Are family-friendly benefits only for parents?
Not at all. The most progressive employers recognise that family-friendly policies can support everyone—from those planning a family to caregivers, pet owners, or anyone who needs flexibility for personal reasons.
7. How can job seekers find family-friendly employers?
Flexa makes it easy to search for verified family-friendly companies. Each company listed has been assessed for its policies, benefits, and real employee experiences, helping job seekers find workplaces that genuinely support work-life balance.