I love the idea that America would base its maternity leave policies on something as economically unimportant as baby formula sales
Baby formula sales in the US are approximately 4 billion dollars out of a 28 trillion dollar economy. Zoomers need to stop believing tiktok
Baby formula sales in the US are approximately 4 billion dollars out of a 28 trillion dollar economy. Zoomers need to stop believing tiktok
Apparently Nestle doesn't even make baby formula in the US anymore, which makes this take even more idiotic than it already was
The economic costs of women staying home instead of working would obviously be higher than the loss of baby formula sales, so the corporate element that impacts maternity leave policy is just that they just want employees to go back to work
No need for a deeper conspiracy
No need for a deeper conspiracy
Personally I'd argue that even from a bloodless economic perspective, making it easier to have kids has long term benefits that outweigh women taking 4 months off of work 2-3 times during their careers. Privileging the current economy over that is kind of eating your feed corn
I doubt the number of women who would be off work in a year would even have a huge economic impact anyway. You have 3.5 mil. kids born a year, women get 14 weeks maternity like in Germany, that's less than 3% of America's full time workforce taking a little more than 3 months off
Some percentage of the lost workers would be offset because companies would need to hire temps to fill those roles while people are out, so there'd actually be some job opportunities in tempwork for young people or the marginally employed. That's not a big economic burden
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