Taipei City Government

　　To encourage businesses to create family-friendly workplaces that support parenting, the Taipei City Government held the 「2025 Family-Friendly Parenting Enterprise Awards Ceremony and Family Day Event」 on August 8, 2025, at the Taipei Children’s Amusement Park. During the event, 42 companies were publicly recognized for receiving the Family-Friendly Parenting Enterprise Award, honoring organizations that have demonstrated excellence in fostering supportive workplace environments for employees with children. This year, a total of 70 companies registered to participate in the awards, nearly doubling the number from last year. This shows that Taipei City’s efforts to promote a family-friendly workplace culture have been effective across enterprises of all sizes.

　　Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an stated that amid the tide of declining birth rates, creating a workplace environment that allows employees to balance work and family life is key for companies to retain talent. Seeing so many companies—especially small and medium-sized enterprises—enthusiastically participate this year has been truly encouraging. These award-winning companies are not only benchmarks for happy workplaces, but also an important force for maintaining stable social development. The city government will continue to promote relevant policies and work hand in hand with businesses to make Taipei a friendly and livable city.

　　All of the award-winning companies in this round provide family-friendly childcare measures that go beyond statutory requirements. Among the companies recognized for outstanding performance in specific categories, many have introduced particularly eye-catching initiatives. For example, in terms of childcare-related leave, Standard Chartered Bank offers 20 weeks of paid adoption leave, maternity leave, as well as leave for accompanying prenatal checkups and paternity leave. In terms of financial support, E.SUN Financial Holding Company provides employees with a NT$100,000 growth fund for each child, enabling them to raise their children with peace of mind while also investing in and building up education funds for their children. O-Bank offers a monthly childcare allowance of NT$1,000 until a child reaches the age of three, and during pregnancy, also provides the benefit of one cup of fresh milk per day.

　　Regarding flexible work arrangements and support measures, Gamania Group grants employees four days of work-from-home (WFH) time per month. Dfine Acoustics not only dispels the notion that only large enterprises have the resources to establish on-site childcare centers, but also adopts a seamless scheduling approach aligned with employees’ working hours, effectively easing the time pressure associated with picking up and dropping off children.

　　In addition, in terms of childcare and parenting support networks and measures, Fubon Bank organizes annual employee donation drives to collect secondhand household items, which are then donated to Indigenous children in remote areas, thereby expanding childcare and parenting support service networks from within the organization to the wider community. Taiwan Merck not only provides tangible family-friendly measures, but also fosters a family-supportive organizational culture internally through various awareness and advocacy sessions, while externally it openly articulates a family-friendly workplace as a core vision for organizational development.

　　Taipei Water Department, Taiwan International Ports Corporation, and Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation have responded to the government’s diversified childcare policies by establishing workplace nanny services, workplace cooperative childcare and early education centers, and providing temporary childcare services, thereby creating family-friendly workplaces that support both parenting and employment.

　　The innovation and commitment demonstrated by these organizations have helped create a higher-quality, childcare-supportive workplace environment in Taipei. Many companies have further extended their benefits to same-sex partners and adoptive families, and have supported employees in balancing family and work through measures such as flexible working hours and remote work. These efforts embody the spirit of diversity and inclusion, setting an exemplary benchmark for a happy and inclusive Taipei.