Americans, especially millennials, favor paid parental leave. And increasingly U.S. workers are also supporting paid leave that will allow them to care for loved ones or to deal with their own health issues.
As Forbes points out, millennials in particular are at the forefront of those believing paid parental leave is not just desirable, but pretty near essential as a workplace benefit.
In fact, the report cites an Ernst & Young study that finds 86 percent of U.S. millennials say they're less likely to quit a job if parental leave is offered to both women and men, and 38 percent of U.S. millennials would actually relocate to another country if it meant getting better-paid parental leave benefits.
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