Guild Education: Empowering Employees Through Comprehensive Benefits

Guild Education is dedicated to solving the biggest workforce challenges for Fortune 100 enterprises by focusing on attracting and retaining talent, filling critical roles, and building skills and capabilities within their workforces. They achieve this by offering a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to support employees' financial, educational, and personal well-being. Guild believes that investing in employees’ growth gives them a reason to stay and engage, leading to significant business outcomes.

What Guild Education Offers

Guild provides outcomes, not just content. Employees in Guild programs are 3.5 times more likely to move into new roles, and employers see an average $3 ROI for every $1 invested. Guild redirects spending as priorities evolve and provides budget levers, ensuring employers are in control. The learning is built for real jobs, with a catalog designed to meet business needs, featuring over 2000 programs vetted for quality and performance. Certified coaches help employees persist through their programs at higher rates and connect learning to career next steps.

Guild offers talent development solutions built for persistence, progress, and performance. Guild Grow delivers high-quality education and credentials, giving employees access to education, career-building skilling pathways, and credentialed learning. Guild Grow simplifies benefit administration so teams can focus on impact. Guild Academy customizes experiences to drive team performance, equipping employees with customized, cohort-based learning to build business-aligned capabilities.

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Guild Education recognizes that employees need time off to relax, rest, and rejuvenate, and provides generous paid time off. The benefits package is designed to provide employees and their families with protection in the event of illness, medical conditions, and the birth or adoption of a child, as well as to help provide for retirement.

Financial Benefits

Financial well-being is a key component of Guild’s total rewards package. Every employee has an equity stake in the company, providing ownership and a path to future earnings. Guilders receive free one-on-one coaching with a certified financial planner, a platform with budgeting tools, an investment and equity management center, and many more financial resources through Origin. The Employee Assistance Fund offers financial support for unforeseen crises, disasters, and/or personal hardships, funded by the company and fellow Guilders. Employees also have access to legal support and resources to navigate complicated situations like estate planning, name changes, and immigration. Automatic enrollment in a 401(k) plan with diverse investment options and personalized retirement advice is also provided.

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Education Benefits

Guild strongly believes in lifelong learning and sees education as a meaningful way to grow careers. Guild offers multiple paths to meet educational and professional goals, extending the offerings they give to their employer partners to all of their employees through Guild for Guilders (G4G). G4G includes thousands of learning paths to meet your needs like associate, bachelor, master’s, certificate, and stand-alone programs. All people managers have access to professional development and coaching. Internal learning systems support employees in professional and personal development through curated learning journeys focused on DEIB, coaching, and company values.

Family-Focused and Caregiving Benefits

Guild is committed to supporting the caregivers that make up their teams and their families. Individuals starting or continuing their family building journeys have access to fertility benefits built into all of their medical plans, a $10,000 family planning fund to take care of costs that aren’t covered by the medical plans like adoption, surrogacy, and egg freezing expenses, 12-20 weeks of paid leave and a ramp-up program for Guilders to ease back into work after an extended time away, and an additional 3 weeks of paid leave if you are going through the adoption, surrogacy, or foster process to use prior to your child's arrival/placement to prepare and attend necessary meetings. Inclusive guidance and support as you go through your family planning journey is available through Cleo.

Parents/caregivers have access to the on-site childcare center, The Beehive, offering care for children 3 months-6 years of age for employees and their friends and family members located in Colorado, personalized 1:1 support for anyone on the parenthood journey with access to a network of clinicians, experts, and specialists through Cleo, 80 hours of low cost ($2/hr) emergency backup care for times employees unexpectedly find themselves without primary care for the ones they are responsible for, dedicated support in finding background-checked care providers to assist with child care, elder care, and chronic care needs through Helpr, and the ability to bring an actively nursing child and companion on work related trips.

Health and Wellness Benefits

Guild offers multiple medical plan options that vary in network and premium including 2 that are no cost to employees so that you have choices for what works best for you and your family. There is an option to enroll in HSA with a contribution from Guild to support your healthcare needs. Access to low cost mental health services is available through medical plans as well as free culturally competent mental health services through Hurdle Health. Guild offers comprehensive gender affirmation coverage that includes electrolysis, facial feminization surgery, vocal therapy/surgery, pectoral implants, mental health counseling, and additional services to support those transitioning. A monthly wellbeing stipend is available to pay for things that matter to you and your family.

Time Away From Work

Guild offers generous leave policies and open PTO so Guilders can step away when they need it.

Guild Talent Advantage

Guild Talent Advantage offers talent development solutions built for persistence, progress, and performance. This includes Guild Grow, which delivers high-quality education and credentials by giving employees access to education, career-building skilling pathways, and credentialed learning. Guild Grow simplifies benefit administration, allowing teams to focus on impact. Guild Academy customizes experiences to drive team performance by equipping employees with customized, cohort-based learning to build business-aligned capabilities.

Real-World Impact

Sherry went from high school grad to supervisor, from mentor to degree-seeker - and she’s not done yet. This illustrates how Guild's programs can transform lives and careers.

Guild Partnerships

Guild partners with various organizations to provide educational opportunities for their employees. For example, MultiCare employees can access a catalog of learning programs with their Guild benefit, often with no upfront tuition costs for select programs. These programs include undergraduate and master's degrees, certificates, bootcamps, HS completion, college prep, and English language learning. MultiCare employees can also receive up to $5,250/year for full-time employees and $2,500/year for part-time employees for other undergrad programs and other master's degrees in the Guild catalog. Tuition reimbursement is also available for approved programs outside of the Guild catalog.

Spectrum’s new Education Benefit, powered by Guild, provides full-time employees access to debt-free degree and certificate programs through flexible online learning. Through their partnership with Guild, employees are connected to over 300 programs from more than 30 colleges and universities, such as eCornell, Ohio University, Purdue Global, and the University of Denver.

Support and Guidance

Guild provides support and guidance to help learners succeed. Guild Specialists can walk employees through their benefits and help them explore programs. Guild coaches partner with employees 1:1 to help them achieve their goals.

Employee Testimonials and Confidence

Guild learners express increased confidence in their skills as a result of being enrolled in a Guild program. Many learners credit Guild with helping them identify career paths and achieve their educational goals.

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