Just had a baby and all my firm can offer in terms of flexibility after my 2 wk pat leave is 2.5 days on o/s client site per week (as opposed to 3). Do other firms do better?

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EY has 16 weeks. On it now. It’s awesome. I’d tell you it’s so good you should switch and make another baby. The bonding time really matters especially with the older kids and I’ve been able to be really helpful with the baby too. Same hours as consulting, much better coworkers LOL

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D has 16 weeks paid, which you can take in the first 12 months. Doesn’t affect utilization or anything. You can add PTO and unpaid leave to get up to 6 months

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EY is MUCH better

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Would be great if the family values policies were more than marketing bs

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Congrats!!

Across MBB, B4, and big tech (ie FANG), the minimum is now 8 weeks (I think). Some firms in that bunch north of 20 weeks for non birth parents.

We have 8 weeks and it’s very common to not travel for a while after returning

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Congrats on your new addition!

EY is 16 weeks as well. I just recently took advantage of it

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Many congrats. I got 6 weeks in my firm.. really appreciated that..

Congrats. I'm taking my six weeks paternity next month. I think PwC recently upped it to 8.

ACN has a 8 week "primary caregiver" leave that you can take so long as your spouse doesn't also take it (e.g. not same company)

K offers 6 weeks to “primary caregiver”. And they offer some back to work new parent career coaching service. I’m still nervous about travel/local flexibility upon returning though.

16 weeks paid for dad! Wow that’s awesome.

I’m just finishing up 10 weeks of parental leave (8 Standard + 2 for multiples). We recently increased from 6 weeks to 8 weeks. There is also an option of a phased return of an additional 4 weeks at 60% loading. Unfortunately your firm seems to have a woefully inadequate parental leave policy. Sorry OP.

Not really helpful but: just move to Europe. I am legally entitled for a month after birth and then up to 24 months off split across the parents. (It’s not fully paid but capped at ~2500 for around a year). Afterwards you can reduce to part time (20-80% for six years). And you cannot be laid off for taking time off / reducing (company will have to provide reasoning to court if they try)

God point, but I’m actually in Asia and the trade off is that here I can afford to have help for when I’m not there

Ugh, that's horrible. We had a bad policy but just moved to the standard 8 weeks.

I miss paternity leave!

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