Dive Brief:
- According to a report at Talent Management, Netflix is about to change its parental leave policy to allow four months of parental leave for its hourly workers.
- The change reflects a response to criticism to Netflix's August announcement that it would offer unlimited paid parental leave for up to a year to salaried workers only.
- Hourly workers will soon receive 100% of their pay during the time away from work, Tawni Cranz, Netflix’s chief talent officer, told Talent Management. Netflix hourly workers previously received 12 weeks of leave, but only one month with pay.
Dive Insight:
“The way that we think about leave benefits and offerings is in line with how we think about comp,” Cranz told Talent Management writer Lauren Dixon. “So when we think about compensation, we think about what is the market pay, what is going to be market competitive, and then also what is caring and compassionate for our employees, and what will they value?”
Cranz said Netflix is promoting the idea of giving people the freedom and responsibility to do their jobs, but this this culture model "aligns better with a salaried workforce, more so than hourly employees."
“When you think about an hourly workforce, it’s not exactly authentic to say, ‘You have all the freedom to do your job and all the responsibility when you have to clock in and clock out,’” she told Dixon.
