Each October, a campaign for National Work and Family Month encourages employers to promote healthier and more flexible work environments. Supporting and promoting work-life balance leads to happier, healthier, and more productive associates and families.
One of Nelnet’s most important core values is creating an awesome work environment. Nelnet puts this value into action, providing associates with benefits and perks that offer critical work-life balance not just one month out of the year, but every day.
Supporting Associates Right From the Start
An employer that doesn’t provide comprehensive benefits for associates and their families on day one may not understand just how important this can be to an associate’s overall health, happiness, and productivity. Nelnet provides day-one benefits because we care about associates’ physical, emotional, and financial well-being. This means providing associates and their families with a competitive benefits and wellness package to support their success at home and at work from the start.
Just a few of Nelnet’s day one benefits include:
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Generous Earned Time Off (ETO)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
- Coming in 2025—Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Both with Available Employer Contributions and Incentives
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Company-Paid Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Additional Options of Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Personal, Bereavement, Military, and Domestic Violence Leave
- Virgin Pulse Wellness Platform and Related Financial Incentives
- Healthy Me Buck$ Wellness Reimbursement Program
Some of the other benefits that further support associates in their personal and family life become available after some time working at Nelnet. These include:
- Adoption Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement Assistance
- 401(k) Matching (Nelnet matches 100% of your first 3% contribution and 50% on the next 2%.)
- Employee Choice (Choose to put some or all of your employer-matched 401[k] funds toward your student loans.)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Long Term Disability
- Family and Medical Leave
- Paid Medical Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
Employers today face the challenging task of providing benefits that cater to a wide range of needs. Despite its large size, Nelnet impressively offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our diverse group of associates.
Caring for a Wide Array of Families
Nelnet’s workplace policies, benefits, and perks are geared toward driving successful career development and balancing it with personal, financial, and educational growth for associates. Nelnet’s leaders understand that associates will be most productive when they feel their family is cared for.
Nelnet’s benefits have been an enormous help with us starting a family! It was really stressful trying to figure out how we were going to afford IVF. We were able to combine Nelnet and United Healthcare’s Fertility Solutions benefit along with my HSA savings to greatly reduce the amount of out-of-pocket expenses. I’ve had plenty of time available to take off for the multiple appointments so I could be there with my wife, too. I'm extremely thankful.
Our families matter, and Nelnet recognizes all shapes and sizes.
Encouraging Work-Life Integration
Nelnet is stronger for having associates who successfully balance their work and home life. The organization operates under a flexible hybrid work model, with a number of associates working remotely if they’re not within distance of a Nelnet office, and with many associates coming in to work if they live nearby—with the versatility to work from home occasionally when the need arises.
Balancing time off and time worked is also critical. Nelnet’s leadership encourages associates to use the generous earned time off (ETO) the company provides in order to stay present and available for their families and friends, and refreshed and productive for their careers. Plus, ETO accrual increases with years of service, contributing to a long tenure for many Nelnet associates.
Celebrate Work and Family Every Day With Us
Not all workplaces support their associates in striking a healthy balance between work, personal time, and home life like Nelnet does. If your current employer doesn’t value and create an awesome work environment with benefits and policies to support a work-life balance, consider #LifeAtNelnet.
