Employee Benefits - MyBridgestone

Bridgestone Employee benefits offerings are designed to meet your and your family’s unique needs and priorities – our goal is to offer benefits that meet you where you are.

Bridgestone Americas believes that caring for you means more than just a prescription or dental plan. Our benefit plans are designed to meet our teammates’ emotional, financial, and physical needs, helping them thrive at work.

Bridgestone Employee Benefits

Bridgestone recognizes that each of our teammates has unique needs to sustain a healthy life and contribute to a thriving workplace.

We offer different needs-based benefits to care for all our employees. We are committed to creating a safe, supportive environment through teammate advocacy and education while exercising accountability at all levels.

Physical Health

Our health plans include nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage, maternity and paternity leave, and life insurance. Join us at Bridgestone and experience the peace of mind that comes from knowing your health and well-being are our top priorities.

How We Care for Our Teammate’s Physical Wellbeing

1: Health Care Essentials: Bridgestone health plans offer nationwide medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage, with various plans designed to meet your family’s unique needs.

We have plans that allow you to participate in a healthcare savings account or flexible spending account, and all medical plans include prescription drug coverage.

When focusing on the whole person, we continue to enhance our offerings, to include autism spectrum coverage, 3D mammogram benefits, diabetes care, family planning services, cancer support, and transgender services coverage.

2: Diverse Leave Support for All Aspects of Life: We offer paid and unpaid leave for health-related needs and leave for unforeseen circumstances. We understand that individuals need benefits that provide flexibility and support during various life situations.

Our leave benefits include generous paid time off (PTO – that is based on position and location), Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Parental Leave, and Maternity Leave that can support an individual’s work-life balance.

3: Life Insurance for Peace of Mind: We offer policy tier options to teammates for an affordable price, including basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance that is 100% Bridgestone paid. Additionally, supplement life and AD&D coverage is offered to teammates and their families.

This summary does not include all benefit programs and benefits offered depend on roles, locations, and eligibility (i.e., pet insurance, critical illness, etc.). Bridgestone reserves the right to modify, amend, suspend, or terminate its benefit programs at any time, subject to applicable law and any collective bargaining obligations. The applicable plan document will be controlled in the event of any conflict with these materials.

Emotional Wellbeing

We prioritize emotional well-being in the workplace and make it our mission to create a positive work environment for our teams. To support our teammates, we provide numerous resources and support to help manage stress, improve mental health, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Come join our team and experience the benefits of working with us.

How We Care for Our Teammate’s Emotional Wellbeing

1: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for Personal and Professional Support: Bridgestone’s EAP is available to teammates, their families, and household members. The EAP offers a broad range of resources.

Whether a teammate or a household member is dealing with addiction, depression, or stress, or simply needs emotional well-being support, there are programs, and free counseling sessions focused on mental health to help navigate some of life’s everyday challenges and crises.

We provide services that can be in person, virtual, and even text chat that allow the individual to match up with a counselor that is right for them and/or their family. Additionally, the EAP can be a great resource to help teammates or household members navigate caregiving support needs.

2: Employee Resource Groups that Foster a Free-to-Be Culture: At Bridgestone, we are creating a workplace that fosters a culture of acceptance where you are Free to Be your true self because what we need is who you are, unchanged by the feeling that you might need to be a certain way to “fit in.” Being your true self is what matters in life — and that matters to us. 

We are proud to promote a culture of diversity and inclusion by building a team as diverse as the world we serve. In addition to instilling cultural competence and awareness in teammates.

Our teammate-led employee resource groups (ERGs) create an opportunity to bring teammates and allies together based on shared characteristics, life experiences, and interests as they learn more about one another through community outreach and volunteering, mentoring and development opportunities, and internal and external networking.

This summary does not include all benefit programs and benefits offered depend on roles, locations, and eligibility (i.e., pet insurance, critical illness, etc.).

Bridgestone reserves the right to modify, amend, suspend, or terminate its benefit programs at any time, subject to applicable law and any collective bargaining obligations. The applicable plan document will be controlled in the event of any conflict with these materials.

Financial Wellbeing

At Bridgestone, we understand the value of recognizing individual skills, impact, and career progression. That’s why we offer benefits tailored to the market where you work and live. As you progress in your career, you’ll have many opportunities to be rewarded for your contributions.

How We Care for Our Teammate’s Financial Wellbeing

1: Retirement for Your Financial Future: Bridgestone’s 401(k) benefit helps you invest in your future by investing in you now. We offer a retirement savings plan to help you shape your retirement.

Your retirement savings will grow with contributions made by you and matches from Bridgestone. Whether you choose to participate in a 401(k) plan or not, Bridgestone offers a variety of resources and tools to help you achieve your financial goals, whatever those may be.

In addition, Bridgestone provides direct financial tools and advisors to help plan for planned and unplanned short-term investments while continuing to save for retirement.

2: Time Off for Well-Deserved Breaks: Bridgestone is closed on most major holidays so teammates can recognize the holiday, spend time with family or just enjoy a break. Additional time-off benefits are available and vary by location and part-time or full-time employment status.

3: Volunteer Time Off: As a teammate at Bridgestone, you can connect with your manager about volunteer time-off opportunities. These opportunities give Bridgestone links to the communities where teammates reside while giving them a meaningful break from work.

Bridgestone takes our corporate social responsibility commitment very seriously, and we believe that we can perform for stakeholders while embracing our responsibility to future generations.

4: Career Learning Opportunities Bridgestone is invested in your professional and educational growth because we know that relevant coursework can sharpen your specialized skill set and develop soft skills essential to corporate success.

To provide this value to our teammates, we offer a tuition reimbursement program and continuing education support to provide this value to our teammates.

5: Assistance Funds to Help Teammates During their Time(s) of Need: There are times when the unexpected can impact you and/or your loved ones ‘emotional, physical, and financial well-being. Bridgestone has Assistance Funds that teammates can access for help in their time of need.

This summary does not include all benefit programs and benefits offered depend on roles, locations, and eligibility (i.e., pet insurance, critical illness, etc.).

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