For the 22 million people who are currently unemployed, underemployed or have given up on finding work, the perks offered by the 50 companies on AARP’s list of best employers may seem like a sort of mirage.
Telecommuting and flexible work schedules. Phased retirement programs. Free health-care benefits. Retirement-planning seminars. Emergency eldercare services. Those are just a few of the perks offered by some of the companies on the list compiled this year by AARP and the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM, an association for human-resource professionals.
Another reason these employers made the cut? They actively recruit and retain mature workers.
The Top 25 employers
Here is AARP’s list of the 50 best employers for workers over age 50:
1. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Md.
2. Scripps Health, San Diego
3. Atlantic Health System, Morristown, N.J.
4. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
5. Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wis.
6. YMCA of Greater Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
7. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
8. Bon Secours Virginia, Richmond, Va.
9. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Va.
10. WellStar Health System, Marietta, Ga.
11. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
12. West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, W.Va.
13. George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
14. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
15. Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va.
16. S&T Bank, Indiana, Pa.
17. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
18. FCCI Insurance Group, Sarasota, Fla.
19. TriHealth Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
20. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), Washington, D.C.
21. Stanley Consultants Inc., Muscatine, Iowa
22. Southern Company, Atlanta
23. Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
24. Michelin North America Inc., Greenville, S.C.
25. Department of Veterans Affairs-Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor
via The 50 best employers for boomer workers – Andrea Coombes’ Working Retirement – MarketWatch.
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