There’s been a groundswell of support in recent years for more paid parental leave for workers across all incomes and professions. Companies of all sizes and stripes have launchedinitiatives to give new moms and dads time off with pay, and many employers have expanded existing programs. These well-known companies already offer excellent benefits and strive to create abetter work-life balance for new parents.
Many flexible companies recognize that paid parental leave is not just an add-on perk for many top job candidates but an essential part of an employer’s benefits package. FlexJobs has been following this encouraging trend, keeping tabs on some of the great companies that offer not only fantastic flexible jobs but havechanged their paid parental leave policy to offer more paid time off.
Grow Your Family and Your Career With These Companies
1.Amazon
The largest online retailer, Amazon has an innovative leave share program that allows employees to share any amount of their parental leave with their spouses whose jobs don’t provide paid leave—10 weeks of paid time off for birth parents and six weeks for all other parents, plus an additional eight weeks of flexible “Ramp Back” time.
Recent flexible roles:
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Digital Marketing Manager
2.Alight Solutions
Looking to help employees welcome a new family member, Alight Solutions provides eight weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of whether or not the employee is the birth parent, followed by a structured return-to-work transition period.
Recent flexible roles:
- Director of Channel Sales
- Business Consultant, Senior Manager
3.eBay
Working to provide its employees with the care and flexibility needed to support their growing families, eBay offers birth mothers 20 weeks of paid leave and all other new parents 12 weeks of paid leave.
Recent flexible roles:
- Collectibles Authentication Manager
- Customer Service Representative
4.Endgame360
Endgame360 values the importance of family, so it offers up to 12 weeks of paid time off for parental leave and family medical leave.
Recent flexible roles:
- Digital Marketing Manager
- Senior Editor – TV
5.Etsy
Etsy is centered around the mission to “keep commerce human.” No matter their gender or whether they are parents by birth or adoption, all new parents are eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave, along with a suite of other caregiver support resources.
Recent flexible roles:
- US Tax Manager
- Senior Product Marketing Manager
6.Facebook
Facebook offers six to eight weeks of paid maternity leave separate from an additional paternal leave of four months of paid time to bond with a new child, regardless of birth or adoption.
Recent flexible roles:
- Technical Recruiter
- Technical Sourcer
7.Fidelity Investments
金融巨头确保其同事有时间off to focus on their growing families with 16 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birth parents.
Recent flexible roles:
- Service Solutions Specialist
- Wealth Management Team – Service Specialist
8.Hilton
Getting the year off to a good start for all of its workers, Hilton offers four weeks of paid parental leave to all new moms and dads, including adoptive parents, and 12 weeks of paid leave for birth mothers.
Recent flexible roles:
- Lead User Experience Designer
- Senior Content Designer
9.Synchrony Financial
Synchrony Financial offers paid parental leave for 12 weeks, regardless of status as a birth parent.
Recent flexible roles:
- Assistant Vice President – Ad Operations
- Senior Analyst – Analyst – Amazon
10.Twitter
Joining other tech companies that are recognizing that family structures have changed, Twitter has a gender-neutral policy that gives all new parents 20 weeks of paid parental leave.
Recent flexible roles:
- Revenue and Strategy Operations Manager
- Senior Technical Recruiter
11.Wells Fargo
Along with adoption reimbursement, after the birth or adoption of a child, the primary caregiver is eligible for up to 16 weeks of paid leave, and a non-primary caregiver can take up to four weeks of paid leave.
Recent flexible roles:
- Data Manager Senior Consultant
- Customer Service Representative 2
Creating a Work-Life Balance for the Entire Family
Stress can increase aggressively if you don’t have a supportive work environment for all working parents—dads and moms alike. Working dads and moms can find themselves up against even more significant hurdles than the average job seekers as theystrive to juggle career and family life.
More and more parents are recognizingthe enormous positive impact of a remote or flexible role on family dynamics. From thetime saved without a commuteto the ability toflex schedulesaround caregiving, parents love the ability to grow their careers and families simultaneously.
Are you ready to begin your search for a flexible job? We've got your back! From our expert career coaches that provide resume reviews and one-on-one coaching sessions to our huge database of curated flexible jobs, we can help you create the ideal work-life balance for your situation. Find out more!
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