Mark Zuckerberg plans to take maternity leave

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to take maternity leave on the occasion of the birth of his daughter. About this he wrote on his page on Facebook.

Today, Mark posted a corresponding message in his account of the most popular social network:

“Priscilla and I are starting to prepare for the birth of our daughter. We buy toys and books that we loved in childhood. We also think about how we are going to spend time during the first month of her life. This is a very personal decision: I take maternity leave for two months, when our daughter will be born.
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Studies show that when working parents take leave to be with their newborns, this is beneficial for both children and families. On Facebook, we offer our employees in the United States up to four months of paid maternity leave, which can be used throughout the year.

Every day this all becomes more real for us, and we are glad and excited to start this new period of our life.

Here is a photo of our dog Bist (Beast) with a stroller. I think he knows that there is a change ahead. ”



It's hard to imagine Facebook without Zuckerberg, even though he’s been away for just a couple of months. Back in July, he announced that soon the firstborn would be born with his wife, Priscilla Chan. After that, for several months in the world of technology, discussions about gender equality and increasing the length of paid maternity leave for IT-companies did not abate. During this time, several technology companies have improved their maternity leave policy. Starting in August of this year, Netflix offers its employee unlimited paid decrees, and a little later, Amazon, for the first time in its history, provided an employee with a similar opportunity.