Companies Offering Generous Parental Leave

Open-source AI + ML community and platform — home to over 1.5M+ models, 250K+ datasets and 750K+ spaces. 20 weeks paid family leave for ALL parents, fully gender-neutral.

US developer data platform (NASDAQ: MDB) behind the MongoDB document database, Atlas managed service, Compass, Realm + Vector Search. 20 weeks fully paid for ALL parents (mothers AND fathers, equal) after 1 year tenure, plus 4 weeks flexible return-to-work.

AI safety and research company building Claude — the AI assistant family. Founded 2021 by former OpenAI execs. 22 weeks fully paid parental leave for ALL parents at every level.

American multinational software company (NASDAQ: ADBE) best known for Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat and the Creative Cloud + Experience Cloud platforms. 26 weeks fully paid for primary caregiver, 16 weeks for secondary — among the most generous US tech parental policies.

US software company powering websites, online stores, scheduling, email marketing and domains for entrepreneurs and small businesses. 20 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary AND non-primary caregivers (gender-neutral, all family-formation paths).

Global e-commerce marketplace (NASDAQ: ETSY) for handmade, vintage and craft supplies. One of the original equal-parental-leave employers — 26 weeks fully paid for every new parent worldwide since 2016.

British multinational insurance and financial-services company (LSE: AV.). One of the first UK employers to introduce equal parental leave in 2017 — 26 weeks fully paid for every parent regardless of gender.

World's leading premium spirits, beer and wine company (LSE: DGE). Equalised parental leave April 2019 — 26 weeks fully paid for every parent at full pay in the UK, since extended to several key markets.

Australian SaaS company (NASDAQ: TEAM) behind Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, Loom and Atlassian Intelligence. 26 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents — applied globally.

World's leading developer platform and code-hosting service. Microsoft subsidiary since 2018. 5 months (~22 weeks) of fully paid family leave for ALL new parents — flexibility to take all at once or throughout the child's first year.

US direct-to-consumer telehealth and personal-care company (NYSE: HIMS). 20 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents after 12+ months tenure (12 weeks pre-tenure).

American multinational financial-services + payments corporation (NYSE: AXP). 20 weeks fully paid parental leave for ALL parents (primary or secondary, all paths to parenthood) since 2017; birthing parents get an additional 6-8 weeks medical disability leave.

UK arm of the global Big Four professional services firm. First Big Four firm to equalise paid parental leave — 26 weeks fully paid for ALL new parents from 1 January 2025 (day-one right).

Swedish buy-now-pay-later and digital banking giant (NYSE: KLAR). One of very few global tech employers that tops up Sweden''s 80% statutory parental pay to 100% across the full 68-wk shared scheme — effectively 34 weeks at 100% per parent.

US-based creator-economy platform that powers paid memberships for podcasters, video creators, musicians, writers, artists and other content creators. 20 weeks fully paid parental leave for ALL parents — uniform regardless of role in the family.

US camera and social-media company behind Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles and Spotlight (NYSE: SNAP). 26 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents — globally consistent including EMEA.

British multinational banking and financial services company (LSE: STAN; HKEX: 2888) operating in 50+ markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Global minimum 20 weeks gender-neutral paid parental leave since September 2023.

American multinational investment banking and financial services firm (NYSE: GS). Market-leading 26 weeks paid parental leave for ALL caregivers since 2019 — full parity across primary and secondary regardless of gender.