Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ...
by x0x0 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:38PM
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Not leave -- and note that I'm not opposed to the leave policies -- but I worked at a place that involved travel. The parents always managed to get out of it. I ended up leaving because what would have been a reasonable amount of travel split 4 ways was an unreasonable amount split 1 way (me) with 3 parents who did virtually none of it.
Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ...
by sbov on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:53PM
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Well your original post made no mention of this.
I know plenty of people with kids that have to travel for work. And they make it work.
FYI, retaliation over parental leave is a thing too. I have a friend who took 2 months parental leave. When he came back he was put on call for a year straight.
Other countries tend to have much stronger labor protections so the end result, surprisingly, is often that you're not really doing more work especially if the company is prepared. I just went through an example myself where my relatively small team had a senior developer take parental leave for a few months and the expectation wasn't for us to pick up the slack.