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Ask HN: What's Your Companies Paternity Leave Policy? (Bay Area +)

23 points by sxates ↗ HN
My company (Bay Area, public SaaS company) offers 8 weeks paid maternity (+ 16 week unpaid, protected), but only 1 week paid paternity.

This seems well below what friends who have had children received at other bay area tech companies. Curious to know where this fits on the region/industry bell curve.

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ryanobjc
Google: 12 weeks "baby bonding" accessible to either gender and also in cases of adoption. Take it within a year.

Also: birth mom's get ADDITIONAL medical time off, something like 6-8 weeks depending on delivery method, and another 4 weeks of pre-delivery time off.

Also: fully paid salary at 100% in all cases, including both health insurance AND vesting.

TheDom
Asana: 16 weeks for either gender to be taken in the first year following birth or adoption. The leave can be split into two parts (e.g. 2+14, 8+8).

Full salary and benefits but vesting is paused.

seattle_spring
Is paused vesting common? I've always assumed vesting continues while on leave.
TheDom
AFAIK it's at least not unusual. It e.g. also pauses at Salesforce.
xfitm3
I’m a freelancer now but at my previous company both genders get 26 weeks fully paid leave.