Being a working mother with a breastfed baby at home is such a difficult thing to do. Luckily, tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Netflix gives benefit to those mothers who work for them. Another company who recently added this privilege is Twitter.
Twitter officially added breastmilk delivery to their list of benefits to mothers who can't make it home in time to breastfeed their little one. The tech company tested a few females traveling who were traveling on a business trip to send their breast milk home so it won't go to waste, according to fitpregnancy.com.
Twitter's VP of diversity and inclusion, Janet Van Huysse was the one who started who led this idea during their global sales conference, Fortune reported. Among the 1,500 sales people who gathered, 9 people volunteered to have their breast milk shipped home through FedEx. These girls can also take cold-shipping materials with them or have packing containers sent directly to them.
"This wasn't something we looked at as a program that would have great reach," Van Huysse says. "But it would have big impact for the people it did include." However, Twitter is not the first company who has thought of doing this. IBM and consulting firms like Accenture and EY employees have privileges similar to this too.
It just goes to show that big companies are already starting to change the way mothers who usually get very little or sometimes no breaks at all. Programs like these and the unlimited parental leave that Netflix offered is totally a game changer in the business world.
More and more people are hopeful that this continues. After all, 47 percent of people in the workforce in the United States are women, and with benefits like these, giving up their jobs will never be an option. However, company data revealed that only 34 percent of Twitter's base employees are women. Well, it looks like they still have time to catch up when it comes to gender equality in the workplace.
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