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Guardian deeply values and recognizes the unique needs and priorities of our colleagues. We know that for you to do your best at work, you need to feel your best.

At the center of our benefits and resources options for our colleagues is a commitment to care for you and your loved ones across the entire well-being spectrum:

  • Mind : Support for your emotional resilience and work-life balance

  • Body: Offerings that prioritize your physical protection, prevention, and improvement

  • Wallet: Financial well-being that spans saving, planning, protecting, and spending

Mind: Benefits for your mental well-being

Providing the right resources and benefits to support your mental wellness is on the top of our minds. Here are some of the offerings that are available to our colleagues:

  • Spring Health: Access to an innovative digital platform that provides personalized mental health treatment options quickly, eliminating the barriers to getting the support you or your family need, when it’s needed most.

  • Unlimited paid time off for most roles plus time off for volunteering, jury duty, voting, and bereavement

  • Grief management services

  • Personal holidays for colleagues to use in recognition of religious, cultural, or civic days

  • Paid parental leave and paid family and medical leave policies

Body: Benefits for your physical well-being

Your physical well-being starts with access to benefits that empower you to be proactive about your preventative care and reliable coverage that has your back when you need it.

  • Medical insurance*

    • Telemedicine

    • Second opinions

  • Dental insurance

  • Critical illness and accident insurance

  • Hospital indemnity insurance

  • Vision insurance

  • Prescription medication coverage

  • In-person and virtual fitness classes

Wallet: Benefits for your financial well-being

Feeling confident about your finances frees up the mental bandwidth to focus on the things that you love. We provide an array of offerings to help you feel secure in this crucial aspect of your overall wellness.

  • Competitive compensation

  • 401(k)

  • Health savings account (HSA)

  • Disability insurance

  • Life insurance

  • Discounted whole life insurance

  • College coach program

  • Bright Horizons’ back-up child care, elder care, and pet care

  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance

  • Business travel accident insurance

  • Tuition assistance

  • Wellness reimbursement and fitness memberships

  • Adoption assistance

  • Financial hardship program

  • Colleague referral program

  • Discounts and deals

We’re also proud to provide flexible contemporary work arrangements that balance purposeful in-office and remote work, as well as opportunities to build inclusive and meaningful connections through involvement in colleague-led affinity groups:

  • Employee resource groups

  • Colleague connection committees

  • Community involvement committees

And a culture that encourages colleagues to bring their authentic selves to work:

  • Voluntary self-ID

  • Pronunciation and phonetic spelling of names

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*Important notes for our medical plans:

No Surprises Act (NSA): This act protects you from surprise billing and balance billing when you receive emergency care or are treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center. Review this notice to understand your rights and protections under the NSA.

Transparency in Coverage: These links ( Cigna | Centivo ) lead to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts (applies to the Cigna HD and HD Plus Plans only) between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

Guardian’s subsidiaries and affiliates may have different benefits.

While Guardian currently intends to continue its health, welfare, and retirement benefit plans, Guardian may, in its sole discretion, change, terminate, or amend the Plans, in whole or in part, at any time, and for any reason with respect to active employees/associates, retirees, or any subset thereof. As such, there is no guarantee the Plans will be maintained in their current form and may not be available at the time of hire.

Guardian, its subsidiaries, agents, and employees do not provide tax, legal, or accounting advice. Consult your tax, legal, or accounting professional regarding your individual situation.

Group Insurance products are underwritten and issued by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, NY.

Mental wellness benefits discussed herein are provided by Spring Care, Inc., d/b/a Spring Health (“Spring Health”), 251 Park Avenue, South, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010. Spring Health is not an insurance benefit. Insured products are offered by The Guardian Life Insurance Company, New York, N.Y. (“Guardian”) which has a financial interest in Spring Health. Spring Health may not be offered through Guardian in all states.