キャリアニュース2021年5月21～31日

“Don't worry,” my boss said. “No one will even notice you were gone.” I knew he was trying to calm my worries that I would inconvenience others by taking parental leave after the birth of my second child. But in some ways, deciding to take time off turned out to be more complicated the second time around. I had just started to take on leadership roles at work, and I did not want to let down my colleagues and collaborators. I feared that if I took a leave, everything would fall apart and they'd realize I never should have been trusted in the driver's seat in the first place. Now, I had the opposite worry: “If they don't even notice I'm gone, will they realize everything works fine without me?” > “My contract didn't offer any parental leave. But I knew I would regret not taking time off.” When our first child was born 4 years earlier, my wife and I lived in Japan, where paternity leave is a somewhat unusual ask. We had a long conversation about what would work best for us as profess