Between live births and adoptions, in the United States alone 10,000 children join a family on an average day.
Parental leave is an important consideration for employees and employers alike. A Society for Human Resource Management survey found that most employers consider paid leave important to employee health and wellness, recruiting, and retention. Parents, particularly mothers, without access to paid leave are much more likely to leave their positions within a year of giving birth.
With this in mind, Taboola is excited to reiterate our global parental leave policies.
Taboola considers employees who balance their careers while raising their families to be the ultimate rockstars, especially during the early stages of the pandemic where many played the roles of professional, teacher, homemaker, entertainer, and so much more. Taboola truly values these employees and is dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment that ensures caregivers are able to return to work energized and supported through its global parental policies.
The Basics
For Primary caregivers, Taboola provides:
- 26 weeks of paid leave, consecutive from the date of the child’s birth or adoption
- Return-to-work flexibility: primary caregivers have the option to work at 80% while receiving full-time pay for their first two months back.
For Secondary caregivers, Taboola offers paid leave based on tenure in the company:
- Employees in their first year of employment are entitled to two weeks of paid parental leave.
- Employees in their second year are entitled to four weeks of paid parental leave.
- Employees in their third year of employment and onwards, are entitled to eight weeks of paid parental leave.
Employees that are entitled to eight weeks of leave may choose to take it in two separate four-week periods or all at once.
Where applicable, Taboola employees can stack these benefits with those offered on the federal and state level. In some cases this may result in enhanced benefits in states which provide an additional funding pool, which may be used by secondary caregivers after Taboola’s paid parental leave is exhausted.
According to CNBC analysis of parental leave research published out of Ball State University in 2020, Taboola’s policies far exceed the Fortune 500 corporate average of 10 weeks paid leave offered to mothers and five weeks of paid leave offered to fathers. A 2019 analysis published by the same researchers found that companies with gender-equal policies, like Taboola’s, average less than eight weeks of paid leave for all parents.
Visit Taboola’s Career page for more information about work-life policies at Taboola, or reach out to a Careers colleague.