Amazon has disclosed additional details about the parental leave it offers employees, one of many internal policies the company was criticized for in an article in The New York Times article that painted the e-commerce giant's culture as "bruising." An Amazon spokesperson tells GeekWire that new mothers at the company are offered eight weeks of paid time off in addition to 12 weeks of unpaid. Fathers, meanwhile, do not receive any paid days off — which is a confirmation of what the NYT reported. Workers come and go at Amazon's campus in Seattle. The company's maternity leave offering is just so-so, especially when compared to other tech giants. Microsoft, for instance, gives its new mothers four more weeks of paid leave right now and is getting ready to up that in November. But the lack of paternity leave has been the largest sticking point. An Amazon spokesperson quoted a statistic that 83 percent of U.S. companies don't offer paid paternity leave,
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