Work Options Group Congratulates Clients Named by
Working Mother Magazine as “Best Law Firms for Women”

First-ever list recognizes firms for provision of backup care, flex-time, mentoring, networking and other work/life and women-friendly policies

Superior, CO – August 15, 2007 – Covington & Burling, Foley & Lardner, Hogan & Hartson, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, White & Case, and WilmerHale – all Work Options Group clients – were named on the first-ever list of “Best Law Firms for Women.”  The list, which is coordinated by Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, recognizes firms that offer work/life and women-friendly policies to attract, retain and promote female legal talent.  Click here for the full list of this year's top firms and click here for the article in this month’s issue of Working Mother magazine. 

Included in these six firms’ female-friendly employee benefits is a backup care program provided by Work Options Group.  The program, Backup Care Options, enables employees to continue working despite temporary breakdowns in their childcare or eldercare arrangements. Example situations include an ill child, an absent adult caregiver, a school closure for conferences/holidays, an adult/elder recovering from illness/surgery or business travel.

The Backup Care Options program resolves breakdowns in care for any age dependent (infants through the elderly), healthy or mildly ill, any time of the day or night, every day of the year.  Backup care specialists are available 24/7 to gather information and schedule care with trusted providers, and employees pay employer-subsidized rates for in-home or center-based care. A growing number of law firms and companies across various industries offer Backup Care Options to provide employees with trusted, affordable, temporary care for a variety of situations; this solution enables employees to remain productive at work and manage their family caregiving concerns, plus it helps employers promote work/life effectiveness, reduce absenteeism and increase productivity.
 
About Work Options Group - www.workoptionsgroup.com
Work Options Group's Backup Care Options program enables more than 600,000 employees throughout the U.S. and Canada to get to work when they experience temporary breakdowns in their child, adult and elder care arrangements. Backup Care Options offers temporary care in every location, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for infants through the elderly, whether they are healthy or mildly ill. Work Options Group has offered nationwide backup care for more than 13 years and has scheduled more than 1 million hours of backup care – hours that would otherwise be counted as employee absenteeism. In 2006 alone, the company arranged more than 200,000 hours of temporary care, providing employees with trusted, affordable, temporary care and saving client employers millions of dollars in absenteeism and lost productivity costs.