MetLife offers many Work-Life solutions to add value to each associate's work experience and personal growth. 

Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs)

• MetLife offers associates a number of options for FWAs including: compressed workweeks, part-time work, job-sharing, flextime, and telecommuting.  FWAs require management approval and must meet business as well as associate needs.
  

Work-Life ASSIST Program

• The Work-Life ASSIST Program is a confidential resource for MetLife associates to help manage and cope with life's little — and not so little — challenges.  Associates can access informative articles, helpful tools, and audio tapes and CDs on hundreds of specific topics such as parenting, child care, elder care, managing your budget, emotional health and well being, and a number of other daily life issues.  In addition, associates can set up face-to-face counseling sessions for emotional well-being concerns, if desired.
• Work-Life ASSIST also offers a number of elder care solutions, including an Elder Care Resource and Referral Program and Care ASSIST, an elder care assessment and care planning program which provides personal in-home assessments and consultation for associates who have concerns about an older relative's decline in behavior, memory or ability to handle daily activities.
  

Child Care

• MetLife has helped working parents secure quality child care since the early 1990's.  In 1992, we began offering back-up child care solutions to MetLife associates through a discount program.
• Since then, we significantly expanded our guaranteed back-up child care offerings.  Today, over 9,000 associates have access to guaranteed back-up child care at 10 locations across the U.S.
  

Lactation Facilities

• Several MetLife locations provide private space to new mothers for lactation purposes.

Family-Friendly Benefits

• Expanded Family — Recognizing that "family" can be defined in many different ways, MetLife's benefits offerings include certain children in custodial situations where an associate has assumed financial responsibility as defined by the IRS.  For example, a niece, grandchild or a child for whom the associate is a legal guardian may now be eligible for coverage.
  
• Adoption Assistance — MetLife offers time-off and monetary assistance to associates whose family plan includes adoption, and seeks to provide options for these special cases.  Through our adoption assistance program, we offer reimbursement up to a maximum of $5,000 for expenses related to the adoption of a child, and $6,000 in the case of a child with special needs.
  
• Domestic Partner Benefits — In expanding our family-friendly benefits to attract and retain a diverse associate population, MetLife recongizes domestic partners as eligible dependents. MetLife offers coverage to eligible same- and opposite-sex domestic partners of associates for medical, dental, legal services, long-term care and auto and home insurance.