To create the products that make a genuine difference in people's lives, Hallmark employees need a workplace environment that is different than most—one that balances work with the rest of what life brings.

Hallmark is not simply a place to work but a place to build a career. With our average tenure at 20 years, our employees clearly recognize that and want to stay here.

For more than 50 years, Hallmark has shared its profits with employees—and that's only one part of a benefits program that has been recognized nationally, including Hallmark earning a place in the 100 Best Companies list compiled annually by Working Mother magazine.

When it comes to concerns for employee health, in 2010, Hallmark offered medical insurance premiums for employees participating in Hallmark’s medical insurance plan at 57 percent of the national average for large companies surveyed by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Diversity remains important to Hallmark as well, reflected by the fact that minorities hold 8 percent of management jobs and 54 percent of Hallmark managers are women. Employee resource groups at Hallmark focus on retention, recruitment and career development, and provide a forum for cultural insight to management and product development teams. Resource groups represent persons from the African-American, Latino and Asian communities, the millennial generation and gay/lesbian/bisexual backgrounds.

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