On 25 November the German arm of US IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that all employees will now be eligible for six months of parental leave, with 100% pay from the company, following the birth of a child or an adoption. This move is indicative of a growing trend in Germany; faced with a shortage of qualified staff and the aspirations of new generation of workers, less focused on their careers, an increasing number of companies are introducing measures to foster an improved work-life balance. Their aim: to attract and keep hold of talent.
Six months of parental leave with full pay. Previously announced in April by the leadership of HPE, when its new headquarters in San Jose, California, was inaugurated, the group’s new parental leave policy was covered in greater detail by Ernst Reichart, HPE’s personnel director for Germany, on 25 November. The policy at HPE, which employs close to 60,000 people across the world and 2,100 in Germany, is available to both fathers and mothers. Applicable retroactively from May, employees of the group may take six months of parental leave with full pay, following the birth of a child or an adoption.
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