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On Tuesday, August 4th, Neflix announced on their blog that they would begin offering new parents a progressive parental leave policy:
...Today we're introducing an unlimited leave policy for new moms and dads that allows them to take off as much time as they want during the first year after a child's birth or adoption.
The Boston Globe picked up the story earlier today and compared Netflix's new policy to Google's, which offers 18 weeks of paid maternity leave and 12 weeks of "baby bonding" time. The Boston Globe also notes:
The US and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 185 nations and territories that hadn't imposed government-mandated laws requiring employers to pay mothers while on leave with their babies, according to a study released last year by the United Nations' International Labor Organization.
This new policy "covers all of the roughly 2,000 people working at [Netflix's] Internet video and DVD-by-mail services, according to the Los Gatos, California, company."
However, not all media voices are pleased with this change. Suzanne Venker, author of the recent book The Two-Income Trap: Why Parents Are Choosing To Stay Home, writes for Time :
Offering new parents full pay for up to one year is akin to putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. The needs of children are huge, and they do not end at one year. On the contrary, they just begin. Taking a year off of work to meet those needs merely scratches the surface.
What does Soylent think? Should companies offer new parents lengthy paid leave after they bring a new bundle of joy into the world, or do generous policies do more harm than good?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 06 2015, @07:19PM
"tantamount to"?
I do hear where you're coming from. I despise the use of "impact" to mean "affect." The transitive verb "to impact" means to physically strike an object so as to leave a mark, as in, "The meteor impacted the Earth and left a crater." "This change in the market will impact our sales strategy," however, conjures images of someone wearing a t-shirt that says "change" walking up to the projector screen showing the powerpoint deck and punching a hole through it.
You and I and those like us are fighting a losing battle. For too many, we're fighting a loosing battle.
Wouldn't it be funny to run a public service campaign where an iconic grammarian sees such terrible misuses of the language and sheds a silent tear?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday August 06 2015, @07:38PM
Yes, I much prefer "tantamount to", thank you.
Yes indeed! I also despise the reduplicative copula and sometimes daydream of a website featuring a Bonfire of the Is featuring animations of the word "is" spiralling out of video clips of its superfluous usage into the flames. Another page might display millions of closing parentheses to help out those who have inadvertently left theirs open for eons. I think it would be something of a niche site though so I'll just stop there.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 06 2015, @08:28PM
Nah, who knows? You might develop a small but fierce audience who'll be enough to keep you in soda and cheetos.
Washington DC delenda est.