Yahoo Doubles Paid Maternity And Paternity Leave To DrawTalent, Not To Make Amends

They cannot work from residence, yet Yahoo workers could stay at home for longer after they havebabies.

Yahoo merely revealed that it is doubling the quantity of paid maternity and also paternity leave thetech business supplies brand-new parents. New mommies now could take 16 weeks of paid leave, upfrom 8. Fathers could take eight weeks. And also all brand-new moms and dads get an extra $500,NBC Bay location records.

The statement comes merely two months after Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer prohibitedworkers from working from home, outraging lots of working parents.

It's appealing to see the action coming from Mayer, herself a brand-new mommy, as acompassionate motion from a person that's existed. Nonetheless, the decision to boost paid leaveresembles Yahoo's newest effort to tempt talent by providing perks in line with other Silicon Valleypowerhouses.

Google offers brand-new mothers five months of paid leave as well as dads seven weeks. Facebookprovides brand-new moms and dads 4 months off. Yahoo also began giving staff members totally freedishes and new phones since Mayer took the reins.

Mayer herself simply took a few weeks off when she delivered in 2012. And memorablycommentated that "The child's been means easier compared to every person made it bent on be,"essentially angering nearly anybody which's ever had a baby.

The 37-year-old Chief Executive Officer likely additionally really did not go through the very samekind of pain a new mother typically deals with when going back to the workplace: She had a babyroom developed in her workplace.