Why Netflix's And Microsoft's New Parental Leave Policies Fall Short Of What Parents Need

Why Netflix's And Microsoft's New Parental Leave Policies Fall Short Of What Parents Need Netflix, a pioneer in paid time off policies, yesterday announced in a blog post that new parents, both moms and dads, including adoptive parents, can take as much paid leave as they like for up to a year after the birth or adoption of a child. The Los Gatos-based streaming giant became the first company in the U.S. to formally institute such a generous paid leave policy, says Sarah Jane Glynn, director of women’s economic policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning Washington, D.C. think tank where she has been tracking leave policies for the past four years. Since 2004 Netflix has allowed its employees to take an unlimited amount of fully paid vacation time