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Comment by whiplash451 | Hacker News Reader

Sounds super parent friendly.

It’s far easier for me to arrange a week away from home every few months than go to an office every day - if I were to do an 9-5 that would mean not being able to take kids to school or pick them up, ever.

It might be easier to arrange, but I don't want to leave my kids for weeks at a time. Young children change every day. I've been away from my daughter for a few days and have already missed out of some of her development.

I still don't see why your company should steal two or three weeks of your family time away.

You can see it as a perk, but I see this as a theft.

And someone else might see 10-20 hours commuting and 40+ hours in an office every week as "theft." Take the job you want and can get which has expectations you can live with. There were a lot of jobs at least in pre-pandemic times which required quite a bit of travel or even near 100% during the week (consultants).

What some great companies have done is addressed this with their offsites, either by making the offsite family friendly and paying people to bring their entire family (destination vacation on us!) or paying for childcare while the working parent is at the offsite.

That's what our company does and it's an incredible perk. All expense paid trips with planned events and child care. Even pets are welcome.

We have several new parents at the company. For our last event, two attended and one did not. I think it depends on individual preference and spousal support.

However, please note that we have unlimited PTO (not a scam - I have not turned down a single PTO request in the last two years) and strongly recommend at least 1 month paid paternity/maternity leave.

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