{"id":33628,"date":"2023-10-20T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/why-facebook-is-rolling-out-four-months-of-paid-parental-leave-for-more-than-10000-employees-worldwide-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:31:24","slug":"why-facebook-is-rolling-out-four-months-of-paid-parental-leave-for-more-than-10000-employees-worldwide-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/why-facebook-is-rolling-out-four-months-of-paid-parental-leave-for-more-than-10000-employees-worldwide-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Facebook is rolling out four months of paid parental leave for more than 10,000 employees worldwide &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/l_zuckerberg-people-first-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_zuckerberg-people-first-445\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will offer four months of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/people\/47263-why-richard-branson-is-giving-his-employees-12-months-paid-parental-leave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid parental leave for all full-time employees<\/a> in a bid to support new parents and make the social media giant an employer of choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company says the new paid parental leave policy will primarily  affect new fathers and people in same-sex relationships outside the US,  given US employees already had access to four months of baby leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has more than 10,000 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just days after founder Mark Zuckerberg  announced he will be taking two months off work when his first child is  born.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lori Goler, vice president of people at Facebook, said in a statement she is proud of the company\u2019s new parental leave policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reviewing our parental leave policies, we have decided to make  this change because it&#8217;s the right thing to do for our people and their  families,\u201d Goler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, paid baby leave has been granted only to a mother who  is giving birth. We believe that fathers and mothers alike deserve the  same level of support when they are starting and growing a family,regardless of how they define family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goler cited research that shows almost half of fathers are worried they don\u2019t spend enough time with their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The parental leave will be able to be taken at any point up to 12 months after an employee\u2019s baby is born or adopted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting on January 1, 2016, all new dads and same-sex partners at  Facebook will receive four months of paid leave to bond with a new baby,  whether they are the primary caregiver or not,\u201d Goler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll new parents in all of our offices worldwide, including those who  had or adopted a baby in 2015 and were Facebook employees at the time,  will be eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A number of big companies have rolled out additional paid parental  leave policies this year in a bid to make themselves attractive  employers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, in August video-streaming giant Netflix announced it is  giving employees unlimited maternity and paternity leave during the  first year of a child\u2019s birth or adoption.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in June, Virgin founder Richard Branson revealed he is  giving staff in his London and Geneva offices 12 months of paid parental  leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben Watts, director of wattsnext HR, told <em>SmartCompany <\/em>Facebook\u2019s new parental leave policy is as very clever business decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy doing that and providing that parental leave, it allows them to keep people after they have those babies,\u201d Watts says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better [financially] for those people to come back than start somewhere new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Watts points out most small businesses would not be able to  afford four months of paid parental leave for their employees, he says  there are other things smaller companies can do to make their workplace  attractive to new parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlexibility is the biggest one,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork doesn\u2019t need to be done from nine-to-five. When you\u2019re a new  parent you spend a lot of time awake at night. So if businesses are open  to it and it is outcome-focused, flexibility is key.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve also seen businesses employee internal childcare workers. That\u2019s fantastic for young parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\">Article originally published on www.smartcompany.com.au.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/people\/49192-why-facebook-is-rolling-out-four-months-of-paid-parental-leave-for-more-than-10-000-employees-worldwide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Facebook will offer four months of paid parental leave for all full-time employees in a bid to support new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}