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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 Friday August 07 2015, @01:08PM
What savings do you have when student loans you incurred to get that job siphon all of it away? What margin do you have when you're living in a market that pays salaries high enough to clear anything over your student loan payments, but then siphons it away again in higher cost of living?
I'm frankly surprised to see so many giving TheGratefulNet so much flak for what he's said. The only thing I can figure is it's coming from millenials who still believe the marketing hype. It's tragic that given how much inflation occurred in the cost of higher education over the last 20 years, they're even more screwed than the generations that immediately preceded them.
What TheGratefulNet is saying resonates because he's talking about something systemic. It's not his individual fault that his circumstances are what they are. He, like millions of others, have played by the rules and has even gone above and beyond by tackling a technical career that most couldn't manage or even want to try at. Yet, here he is.
Other posters have doubted there is an Illuminati somewhere planning the destruction of the American middle class (and the middle classes of other countries as well), but there is. I have seen it. I have been in the salons and the private clubs of the ultra-wealthy on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I have sat in meetings at the top echelons of government and the UN (with American presidents, no less). I have heard their conversations and felt their attitude drip from everything they say and do. It's not as formal and defined as a meeting of Dr. Evil with his minions; it's more accurate to describe it as an Illuminati culture. You can watch the deals being cut with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that echoes with the sound of 100,000 innocent civilians having their lives and fortunes vaporized. In everything they do there's an undercurrent of rapacious greed, lust for power, and evil. And it would shock and disillusion the thousands of starry eyed kiddies out there to know that all sides, right-wing, left-wing, whatever, all take exactly the same actions while speaking honeyed words of "doing the right thing."
Washington DC delenda est.