Deloitte and Zoom Cut Paid Family Leave Benefits
Source: NYT > Business
After a decade of competitive benefit expansion driven by tech talent wars, major employers are now openly retreating. The move is happening not in a recession but during ongoing labor scarcity, which suggests companies have calculated that parents cannot actually leave en masse, or that the reputational cost of cuts is now lower than the savings. The shift tests whether benefits were ever about values or just tactical responses to tight labor markets.