Here are some of the reasons why Capital One Canada was selected as one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers (2019):

• Capital One celebrates exceptional performance and achievement through a number of initiatives, including Flash! Awards for contact centre agents who provide excellent customer service, the Beacon of Achievement Award and the Circle of Excellence -- additionally, the company organizes week-long employee appreciation celebrations each year
• Capital One encourages employees to lead active, healthy lives through a variety of health and wellness initiatives, including regular health risk assessments and lunch and learn sessions on topics such as stress and healthy eating habits
• Capital One supports employees who are new parents (including adoptive) with maternity and parental leave top-up payments, to 100% of salary for 6 weeks followed by 75% for 20 weeks -- the company also offers an adoption subsidy of $5,000 and offers the option for parents to extend their leave into an unpaid leave of absence

Here are some of the reasons why Capital One Canada was selected as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People (2019):

• Capital One hosts an entrepreneurial competition for co-op students at the end of their work term, allowing them to present a project to a panel of executives who bid on their favourite -- in the 2017 competition, co-op students from the Kitchener-Waterloo Innovation Lab developed a budgeting tool, which was released in the beta version of Capital One's mobile app and tested so well that the feature is now being integrated into the Android app
• Capital One encourages employees to harness their creativity through 48-hour "Innovation Days" which allow employees to break from their regular jobs and work in teams on an innovative project that interests them -- ideas are presented to a panel of judges and prizes are awarded to winners, with some ideas implemented in the company
• Through Capital One's Digital Disruption Speaker Series, associates can hear directly from senior executives, other Capital One leaders and industry experts in an interactive forum about current topics that include APIs, big data, cloud, UX, agile, design thinking and more -- the sessions are offered on a regular basis, made available via video conference as well as recorded and shared after the fact

Here are some of the reasons why Capital One Canada was selected as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers (2019):

• Capital One's diversity council is comprised of senior leaders who work to align programs, learning and recruitment to the company's overall diversity and inclusion strategy -- additionally, the company manages a diversity and inclusion advisory board with representation from the diversity and inclusion team, business resource and affinity groups, and inclusion champions from each line of business
• The company recently established an associate consultation forum to help measure progress towards its 3-year employment equity plan, which includes quantitative and qualitative goals to aid in the removal of barriers for specific groups
• Capital One offers training on a variety of topics, including unconscious bias awareness and inclusive leadership, and maintains a digital learning library, which features resources to facilitate diversity workshops, information on best practices and recommendations for external speakers on related topics