Of these, paternity or childcare leave to the secondary caregiver parent has emerged as one of the key attractions. Early this year,among manufacturing firms by raising its paternity leave to one month.This comes when most other companies offer 10 days to two weeks as paternity leave. Jnanesh Kumar, director, Employee Success (India), Salesforce, said, "We believe offering paid paternity leave is the right thing to do, the right way to treat our employees. More importantly, we want to encourage people in India to talk about paternity leave and remove the stigma from women." Some companies have de-linked parental leave from gender by the usage of terms like primary caregiver and secondary caregiver.

Source: Times of India July 16, 2017 19:21 UTC