Should employers allow us to comfortably meet our family’s needs?

Tori Dunlap, CEO of Her First 100k, shared the impressive benefits package they offer employees, and I posed this question on Linkedin:

What if all companies treated their people this way? How different would the world be if all employees felt valued as humans first?

💚 Unlimited paid leave for vacation, sick, menstruation, bereavement, and your birthday
💚 4 months of fully paid parental leave for birth, adoption, or surrogacy
💚 11 paid federal holidays plus 2 floating holidays each year
💚 20+ days of company-wide breaks throughout the year, separate from PTO
💚 Remote work stipend for tech and home office setup

I love seeing benefits like this in job descriptions. Is YOUR company this generous?

SHOULD this be considered generous?

Or should we simply expect our employer to allow us to comfortably meet our family’s needs, and other demands of life?

Our economic structure was built on the presumption that every “worker” (read: every paid worker) would have a stay-at-home-parent to manage all the domestic responsibilities.

This isn’t a reality for most these days—and let’s be honest, it never really was for anyone beyond the privileged class. And even when it is a reality, that stay-at-home-worker is often at risk because their work isn’t recognized as such.

Our actual reality is: It takes a lot of work to run a functional household, successful families need unhurried time together, and humans need time and resources to take good care of our bodies and minds. When companies build policies that support these things, they gain loyalty and the best work of their industry’s top talent.

Let’s expect more from our employers. Thank you Tori Dunlap for paving the way!