Something is happening in tech.
First it was Netflix that announced it was offering employees "unlimited" paid parental leave during the first year after giving birth or adopting a child. A day later Microsoft unveiled its own new policy. Several days later came a similar announcement from software giant Adobe.
Neither the Microsoft or Adobe plans are as generous or novel as the one offered by Netflix, but both companies are still at least doubling the leave they currently offer.
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Microsoft moms will now get 20 weeks of paid leave, up from 12 weeks paid and eight weeks unpaid. Dads at Microsoft can now take 12 weeks of paid time off, up from four weeks of paid leave and eight weeks unpaid.
Adobe's plan is even more generous. It will give mothers 26 paid weeks and fathers 16 paid weeks off. The company will also be boosting its paid medical leave to 10 weeks as well as its paid family medical leave to four weeks.
In a blog post explaining Adobe's decision, Donna Morris, a company executive in charge of "people and places," said that the U.S. government's lack of mandates puts the onus on companies to make tough decisions about employee benefits.
"Our employees are our intellectual property and our future," she wrote. "Now we will better support all of them, across a spectrum of age, gender and experience, with a diverse mix of family needs and situations. The investment is unquestionably worth it."
Adobe, along with a number of other tech companies, including Apple and Google, has been the subject of ongoing litigation alleging wage theft. The accusation is based on allegations that leaders of the companies illegally colluded not to recruit each other's employees, thus depressing wages in the industry. Unveiling generous new benefits is likely one way to combat any negative perceptions of the company generated by such controversies.
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