What is your company vs management policy on Paternity leave?

Apple
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Jul 18, 2017 10 Comments

Even though company may have generous leave policy for new parents does your management actually allow you to take your full leave or is there significant pushback where they only let you take one or two weeks?
Do they screw up your performance review if you take more than a few weeks?

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  • Microsoft / Sales
    KepItRel

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    KepItRel
    In general NO, but there is always that one manager that shouldn't be a manager. Hopefully u don't have that one
    Jul 18, 2017 0
  • Microsoft / Eng
    ☠Nutella☠

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    The original S Nutella!! Bam Bam Lolol!!
    ☠Nutella☠
    We don't have paternity leave. We do have bonding leave which is 12 weeks, male or female.
    You still get your target RSU at review time but you get your bonus as a percentage of the weeks you've worked that year.
    Where does the 'would they screw you' attitude come from? It's cultural because I've heard it often... is it east asian or indian? It's certainly not european...
    Jul 18, 2017 4
    • Apple
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      More like Americans need to adapt to other cultures to stay competitive
      Jul 18, 2017
    • Microsoft / Eng
      ☠Nutella☠

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      The original S Nutella!! Bam Bam Lolol!!
      ☠Nutella☠
      this whole idea of competition is warped... what are we trying to achieve? By all standards we have achieved enormous wealth and we don't need economic growth. We need economic complacency. Let's be real, agriculture was 80% of total labor hours, now it's 1%. And food is 50% of what we need. All the extra already goes to the rich, so why slave away?

      Why do we work so much? Because we need gas to get to work, and roads on which to drive to work, and people who quarry marble and mine iron ore so we can build nice and big work buildings with marble lobbies, and extract oil so we can build planes for people to travel for their work etc... it's recursive madness, and I haven't even started with military spending!! It's like the canadian tar sands, they spend 90 units of energy to extract 95 units of energy. It's fucking ridiculous. But we continue this way because capitalism is a fucking religion like islam and christianity... nobody wants to dismantle it or admit its flaws, and the rich spend billions keeping the illusion because it immensely benefits them living a superficial life of amazing luxuries with thousands of slaves working for them and sucking their dicks, all the while we are destroying our spaceship earth. #insanity.
      Jul 18, 2017
  • 6 months paternity as a new perk. Know a couple of managers currently taking it. Mgmt pretty supportive of it.
    Jul 18, 2017 0
  • VMware
    xUux23

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    xUux23
    Nope- paternity is same as maternity here (which I believe is 18 weeks?) , haven't seen anyone get pushback. Though If you take your whole time I think there is some weird limitations to your employee stock purchase program availability.
    Jul 18, 2017 0
  • Cisco / Mgmt
    flareon

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    flareon
    My husband took 2 weeks after the baby was born and then we used the rest of his leave for a long family vacation with grandparents. Haven't impacted him in any way. The nice part was he also saved his PTO time by using the parental leave, so when he was leaving the company it was compensated with cash.
    Jul 18, 2017 0