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How One Company Made Its Parental Leave Truly Gender Neutral
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one company—a mid-sized tech firm called PivotWorks—redesigned its parental leave policy to be fully gender neutral. Instead of separate maternity and paternity leave, they created a single 20-week paid leave for all new parents, regardless of gender or how they became parents. The hosts dig into the specific design choices: why the company avoided the term 'primary caregiver,' how they handled adoption and surrogacy, and what happened to uptake rates when the policy was announced. They also discuss the business case—how the policy helped…
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