South San Francisco Company Named Among Best Employers For New Dads

SILICON VALLEY, CA – Fatherly, a digital lifestyle guide for young parents, has announced its 50 Best Places to Work for New Dads, and a number of Silicon Valley and Peninsula companies have made the list.

The report highlights the best paternity benefits offered by leading companies in the United States. The top 50 companies are listed below, with those headquartered in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area in bold text, with its home city in parenthesis.

The San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley area managed snag 18 spots in the top 50:

1. Netflix (Los Gatos)
2. Etsy
3. American Express
4. Spotify
5. Facebook (Menlo Park)
6. Twitter (San Francisco)
7. VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto)
8. Bank of America
9. Patagonia
10. Deloitte
11. Square (San Francisco)
12. Pinterest (San Francisco)
13. Discovery Communications
14. CA Technologies
15. NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara)
16. Workday
17. Microsoft
18. Starbucks
19. Airbnb (San Francisco)
20. Capital One
21. Johnson & Johnson
22. Genentech (South San Francisco)
23. BASF Corp.
24. Mastercard
25. Intuit (Mountain View)
26. State Street Corp.
27. Zillow Group
28. 3M
29. Citi
30. Intel (Santa Clara)
31. PayPal, Inc. (San Jose)
32. Google (Mountain View)
33. Bain & Co.
34. Amazon
35. PwC
36. Yahoo!, Inc. (Sunnyvale)
37. LinkedIn (Mountain View)
38. Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
39. Red Hat
40. IBM Corp.
41. Vanguard
42. Roche Diagnostics
43. Yelp (San Francisco)
44. Apple (Cupertino)
45. IKEA
46. Chobani
47. Zappos.com
48. Oppenheimer Funds
49. Adobe Systems (San Jose)
50. Fannie Mae

To compile the list, Fatherly worked in tandem with "preeminent" experts in the field to evaluate the policies extended to parents. To be eligible for Fatherly’s list, companies had to have at least 1,000 employees and must offer a minimum of four weeks paid paternity leave. They were additionally judged against a rigorous set of criteria including, the availability to corporate flextime, access to on-site childcare and job security for parents.

Some additional insights from the report include:

• Since Fatherly launched its first report three years ago, the amount of paid leave offered to new fathers has nearly tripled, jumping from four to about 11 weeks.
• Although Silicon Valley companies are still at the forefront, a promising trend is on the rise as companies like Starbucks and Ikea extend their policy to their retail locations.
• Child care support, both on-site and provided through a subsidy, is a growing trend. Companies like Patagonia provide on-site care while 47 percent of total responses offer child-care subsidies to parents.
• Netflix, for the second consecutive year, is the leader in paternity leave, offering 52 weeks of paid time-off.
• 88 percent of Fatherly’s top 50 companies offer flextime, recognizing that the importance of family time extends beyond newborns.

More information about the study can be found on fatherly's website.

By Mark Nero (Patch Staff) / Image via Shutterstock