Kevin Co on paternity leave: 'It’s a win-win, for parents and children'

In the fourth of our ‘Men at work’ series on paternity leave, we hear from Kevin Co who lives in Sydney with his wife and daughters, aged one and three

I am fortunate my company, Avanade, has a generous paternity leave policy. I took eight weeks off with my second child, with pay as normal. The condition was my partner needed to be back at work with a minimum of part-time hours. The idea is to empower the primary carer to return to the workforce. I followed that up with four weeks of annual leave. Prior to this job, I was contracting. So, when my first child was born, both my wife and I chose not to work.

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