The article describes a lot of good practices being rolled out by Google. Not sure how the leave really works in practice though. 5 months off is a lot for som

The article describes a lot of good practices being rolled out by Google. Not sure how the leave really works in practice though. 5 months off is a lot for someone on executive track, a lot can happen in the tech field in five months for a critical person and if the person is not that critical they probably shouldn't be executive level. However, I certainly wouldn't say no to 5 months full paid time off for paternity leave myself and a guarantee it wouldn't affect my chances of promotion at all. I'm not sure how that could really be guaranteed though. Some men and women might have several children during their 20s and 30s, that could amount to a lot of time off for them. Surely it would affect their jobs if they, as many do, had one child a year for a streak, and took 5 months per year off. This assumes of course that men and women are treated equally and there is 5 months leave for both parents. The article isn't clear about this, but I assume paternity and maternity leaves are treated equally.