Google Ups Its Maternity Leave and Hangs on to More Women: Good Move by Google?
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2012/08/29 21:00:00
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Recently, Google’s analysis showed that the company was losing women after they had babies. According to Slate.com, "The attrition rate for new mothers was apparently twice that of other employees."
In response, according to a recent New York Times story, "Google increased maternity leave from three months to five and made it fully paid. The attrition rate halved. Now, one could argue that a successful company should have known better than to have had such a pitiful maternity policy in the first place, and should have figured out why the new mothers were so unhappy without that spreadsheet. But hey, every corporate culture has its own way of figuring things out."
In response, according to a recent New York Times story, "Google increased maternity leave from three months to five and made it fully paid. The attrition rate halved. Now, one could argue that a successful company should have known better than to have had such a pitiful maternity policy in the first place, and should have figured out why the new mothers were so unhappy without that spreadsheet. But hey, every corporate culture has its own way of figuring things out."
Read More: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/08/28/go...
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imsmarter 2012/08/30 01:05:05
Particularly mothers, who should be at home actually mothering their children.
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Much more.
work at first there was no maturnity leave, but when I got back, I got paid, for being off,
But only 8 weeks, that was so hard to go back to work. There some that go to umemployment.
Did you try to get unemployment, because later in life I realize that women could go down for unemployment, I don't know if that was alway or something new.
It also help if manager are friendly.
my daughter has her own apartment, she doing good. I not working now, because of personal problems, but now i wish my daughter was little. Time is funny, some things seem like it was the other day, but you know it was longer. By the way thank you for writing back.
It seems to me, however, that the lifespan of a corporation seems to be that they have great pay and benefits when things are doing great and then get dragged down by their high labor costs in latter years, like Xerox, Eastman Kodak, IBM, GM. Not many companies seem to be able to adapt as society changes.