Could you go into a little bit of detail about taking paternity leave off work—how your colleagues viewed it, and so on?
Everyone was very supportive. My work had just raised paternity leave from 7 to 12 weeks, and several other coworkers have taken leave recently. My boss did say several times that he was very glad to have me back, and that it was hard to schedule work when people disappear for months at a time, but there was no pressure to take less leave.
This is a sufficiently big difference it might be worthwhile Julia updating the original post?
Also, could you go into a little bit of detail about taking paternity leave off work—how your colleagues viewed it, and so on?
Everyone was very supportive. My work had just raised paternity leave from 7 to 12 weeks, and several other coworkers have taken leave recently. My boss did say several times that he was very glad to have me back, and that it was hard to schedule work when people disappear for months at a time, but there was no pressure to take less leave.
(More details on the different childcare arrangements we’ve tried: http://www.jefftk.com/p/childcare)