A Facebook data scientist has revealed she left the social media giant only eight months into her role after the company refused her additional unpaid maternity leave to bond with her child.
Eliza Khuner was five months pregnant when she started at Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire in November 2017 but ultimately they parted ways in July 2018 when she felt the job would interfere with her ability to be a present mother, she wrote in a Wired opinion piece.
The Berkeley, California mom had raised two children before giving birth to her little girl in March.
Eliza Khuner was five months pregnant when she started at Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire in November 2017 but they parted ways in July 2018
Khuner raised two other children before she joined Facebook in November 2017 and went through a break-up before she quit Facebook to spend more time with her child
However after four months of maternity leave Khuner admitted she felt like she'd be betraying her daughter by leaving her all day with a nanny.
It's considered a generous amount for an American company, which isn't required to pay new mothers during their time off and usually only allow up to 12 weeks out of office.
But with four months at home - the minimum term in European Union companies - she also struggled with the idea of only getting six hours sleep if juggling a full time role and new-born baby duties was to become her reality.
'When I told Facebook I wanted to work from home part-time, HR was firm: You can't work from home, you can't work part-time, and you can't take extra unpaid leave,' she wrote in the article, adding that matters were made more serious by the recent breakdown of her relationship.
After sharing why she made her decision to resign in an internal group for Facebook employees globally, she didn't expect to receive more than 5,500 responses from women and men who felt they'd also struggled with parenting decisions as a result of their demanding roles at the company.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintained that employees would have to wait for a change in the way they approach family-work balance but gives new parents $4,000
Childcare expenses are partially reimbursed at Facebook, and there are many lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers (Zuckerberg is pictured with his wife Priscilla and two children)
Some women admitted they'd frozen their eggs because while they yearned to be a mother, they couldn't afford to give up their job to take care of a child.
Khuner noted that even Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer and first female board member, said allowing new mothers to work part-time would put too much of a strain on the rest of the team.
Sandberg became a single mother of two children after her husband Dave Goldberg passed away in 2015.
Known for being a women's rights advocate, Goldberg said to be one of the inspirations behind Sandberg writing her book Lean In, which has served as a guide for many women on why speaking up in the workplace is so important.
When Khuner had the opportunity to confront CEO Zuckerberg himself during a weekly Q&A session, even holding her sleeping baby on her chest as she pressed him to change the structure did not help, she wrote.
Khuner recalled how she told him take his own advice and be bold by referencing 'What would you do if you weren't afraid?' posters around the Facebook campus.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and first female board member, said allowing new mothers to work part-time would put too much of a strain on the rest of the team
Khuner wrote that she told him: '"I want to know: Would you give us part-time, work-from-home, and extended leave options right now, not later; would you lead this company and the US in supporting working parents; would you give us the chance to show you how kick-ass and loyal we can be with fewer hours at the desk, if you weren't afraid?"'
Zuckerberg maintained that employees would have to wait for a change in the way they approach family-work balance but Khuner mentioned Facebook supports parents in other ways.
A $4,000 handout goes to new moms and dads, childcare expenses are partially reimbursed, and there are many lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers.
But it's not a substitute for precious time spent with children she concluded.
In fact, Khuner thinks flexibility will lead to companies like Facebook saving money in the long run by retaining staff and having employees who are willing to put more into the jobs that are giving back to them.
There might even be a chance of her making a return in the future.
She finished the article: 'I told Facebook when they make that change, they know where to find me.'
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