Canada’s Top Family-Friendly Employers list for 2025 just dropped, and if you’re simultaneously looking for a job while taking care of your little ones, you might want to consider these companies based in Ontario that provide a wide range of programs and initiatives, such as generous maternity and parental leave and daycare assistance.
The annual designation recognizes the country’s leaders who support employees as they balance work and family obligations.
Employers are judged based on a wide range of policies, including paid personal and earned-days-off (EDO) programs, flexible work arrangements, compassionate leave, elder care assistance, adoption support, and reproductive assistance, such as fertility drugs and IVF.
The competition also analyzes academic bursaries for employees’ children, and any other programs that are designed to address work-life balance challenges.
Many Toronto-based companies were recognized on this year’s list, including Boston Consulting Group Canada ULC, which boasts over 560 full-time employees and offers inclusive family-friendly benefits, including surrogacy and adoption reimbursement, and coverage for fertility procedures.
Toronto-based Fidelity Canada was also recognized for creating a family care leave policy to enable employees to take time off for family responsibilities like caring for elderly parents or unexpected child care closures.
Here are the 10 Ontario companies listed on Canada’s Top Family-Friendly Employers for 2025.
- Bank of Canada — Ottawa, ON
- Boston Consulting Group Canada ULC — Toronto, ON
- Carleton University — Ottawa, ON
- Export Development Canada — Ottawa, ON
- Fidelity Canada — Toronto, ON
- HarperCollins Canada Ltd. and Harlequin Enterprises ULC — Toronto, ON
- The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, ON
- Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. — Mississauga, ON
- Stryker Canada ULC — Waterdown, ON
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. / TMMC — Cambridge, ON
Ontario-based companies represented 10 out of 20 of the employers highlighted in the list, versus four in B.C., three in Quebec, two in Alberta, and one in Newfoundland and Labrador.
