Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by endymi0n on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:30PM (#19090655)

There‘s this nice saying: „People who want to, find ways. People who don‘t want to, find reasons.

People here in Germany are on parental leave all the time. I was on parental leave two months as CTO. My cofounder was away almost a year as CRO. You just do what’s obvious: share responsibility, temporarily hire people and/or restructure and make it work. Is it annoying? Sure. Would I want it any other way? Hell, no.

I think it makes all the difference if kids are seen as a common investment into the future economy or as a personal luxury.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by shados on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:37PM (#19090726)

> I was on parental leave two months as CTO. My cofounder was away almost a year as CRO

2 months is nothing. The later example is abit closer. In some of my examples above, we're talking nearly 3 years. That's a whole different level.

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