Paid parental leave has gained popularity as an employee benefit over the last few years as employers including Amazon, Bank of America and Google update their offerings. But despite moves by a number of employers, the U.S. is still the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t offer federal paid leave for either parent. As someone who’s not American, that was surprising to me when I first began covering the industry as a reporter for Employee Benefit News.
If employers want to create family-friendly policies that increase retention, productivity and employee morale, they may want to pay attention to what Nordic countries are doing. Let’s take a look at my home country Sweden as an example.
