These tech companies are offering expecting parents the parenting leaves they deserve

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced on social media that he is taking a two-month paternity leave for the birth of his daughter.

Facebook and Instagram furnish all new mothers and fathers with four months (17 weeks) of paid leave. The California-based social media giant also offers a $4,000 "baby cash" stipend to employees when they become parents.

In an addition to this, Facebook subsidises adoption programs and child care. Most surprisingly, it also subsidises surrogate parenting, sperm donation and egg freezing initiatives. Other tech companies, are you listening?

Google, which morphed into Alphabet few months back, is already famous for its uber cool working environment. The tech behemoth offers biological moms 18 weeks of fully paid and vested maternity leave. Going a step further, Google has a provision for providing 22 weeks of paid leaves for mothers who are suffering from complications during child birth.

Primary caregivers, irrespective of their gender are eligible for up to 12 weeks of paid leave, including adoptive and surrogate caregivers. Non-primary caregivers are eligible for up to 7 paid weeks offs.

As soon as Google increased its maternity leaves from 12 weeks to 18 weeks in 2007, it reported an increase in employee retention. "It just felt like the right thing to do," a company spokesperson told The Atlantic. Not only this, Google also offers priority placements for parents at Bright Horizon child care centers across the US and $500 baby bonding bucks.

Fact: The first employee to go on maternity leave from Google is current YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. She has taken a total of five parental leaves since she joined Google in 1999.

The California-based media streaming provider offer new parents an unlimited paid leave for a period of one year. The policy applies to first year after the birth or adoption of the child wherein the new parents can take as much time they want. They also have the choice to go work part-time, full-time or "return and then go back out as needed."

However, the parental policy only applies to "salaried streaming employees", mentions Netflix.

Going into effect from 1 November 2015, the multimedia software company provides 16 weeks of paid time off for primary caregivers "allowing new parents more time to spend bonding with their children." The lavish policy is extended to Adobe's 6000 employees in the US. The leave policy is provided to employees who have become mothers and fathers "through childbirth, surrogacy, adoption or foster care."

Labelled as the "most important assets", the birth mothers who work at San Jose, California are eligible for up to 26 weeks of paid leaves.

Expecting mothers at micro-blogging platform Twitter are eligible for up to 20 weeks of paid leaves. Also, new fathers and adoptive parents get 10 weeks paid off time at Twitter. Making its commitment to supporting families stronger, the company hosts roundtables for new parents and soon-to-be parents every quarter.

Moms and dads at such meetings ask leave-related queries and discuss the messy part of parenthood.