Lindsay Weber

Karen couldn’t admit to herself that her relationship with her husband was abusive.

They had a young son together and they were business partners. She tried to hide the psychological and physical harm from her son and everyone else in her life. A part of her believed she must have done something wrong in order to deserve the abuse.

“When you trust someone else’s judgement of you more than you trust your own judgement of what’s going on, that is the beginning of going crazy,” she says.

A resounding conclusion from hundreds of CSC employees is this simple one: I love the work I do. CSC’s passion for their work brought them to the second-place spot for large companies in The News Journal's Top Workplaces survey.

CSC, which provides business, legal, tax, and digital brand services to companies around the world, is headquartered in a sprawling 148,000-square-foot campus in North Wilmington.

CSC knew to take the coronavirus seriously right off the bat. Their preparedness and transparency throughout the pandemic propelled the Wilmington-based company to the large company leadership award in this year’s Top Workplace survey.

The international company, founded in 1899, now has offices across the globe, including several in Asia-Pacific countries that transitioned to remote work in January.

How many 8th graders do you know who are committed to making the world a better place?

Well, Trey O’Neil is not like other 8th graders. For Trey’s 8th grade service project at the Westtown School in West Chester, PA, he knew what he wanted to do. Growing up with a single mother, Trey always understood the importance of empowerment and independence for single moms. He wanted his project to help single mothers who are striving to take care of their families.

Trey sleuthed online for an organizat

Anna*, after much deliberation and reflection, gathered the courage to leave her abuser. She took Katie*, her 6-year old, with her, and was on track to get her life back. She was working to get her green card, and she was determined to raise Katie on her own, despite the lack of financial support from her ex-partner.

But her abuser kept calling and calling her at all hours, pleading (“I want us to be a family again”) and making threats (“I’ll take Katie and make you go back to Italy”) and promi

For Tanya, recovering from drug addiction wasn’t the end of her journey; in many ways, it was just the beginning.

Tanya was in an abusive relationship for four years in her twenties, involving verbal, physical, and financial abuse. “I remember feeling like I couldn’t do any better, and that it wouldn’t get better,” Tanya said. “And it didn’t.” Her next relationship was even worse. This time, her partner’s abuse was exacerbated by drugs. Tanya found herself spiraling – from using drugs to fit in