06 沃尔沃将为全公司新生儿父母均提供完整产假

沃尔沃将向全公司的新生儿父亲也提供完整产假，即现在新生儿父母均可享受24周带薪假期。此举有助于提高该公司中的女性高管人数。

全文共387个词，By Peter Campbell

Volvo Cars will offer full parental leave across the company to fathers, with 24 paid weeks for either parent regardless of gender, in a move the carmaker hopes will eventually help raise the number of senior female managers and bolster its image among potential car buyers.

沃尔沃汽车（Volvo Cars）将为全公司的新生儿父亲提供完整产假，即新生儿父母均可享受24周带薪假期。这家汽车制造商希望此举最终将有助于提高该公司高层女性经理的人数，并提升其在潜在购车者心目中的形象。

The group joins a growing number of companies rolling out joint benefits, including Standard Life Aberdeen, which offers nine months fully paid to both parents, and drinks giant Diageo’s offer of 26 weeks paternity leave in some markets.

越来越多的企业开始推出联合福利，比如标准人寿安本（Standard Life Aberdeen）为公司的新生儿父母均提供9个月的全薪产假，酿酒巨头帝亚吉欧（Diageo）在某些地方提供26周的陪产假。现在沃尔沃也加入了这些企业的行列。

Currently, Volvo offers six months paid leave to new mothers, but follows local country regulations for fathers.

目前，沃尔沃为新生儿母亲提供6个月的带薪产假，但为新生儿父亲提供的假期则遵循各国当地的规定。

Its new policy from April will mean employees who have been with the company for a year, including factory workers, will be able to take the full period on 80 per cent pay.

该公司将从4月份生效的新政策将意味着，在该公司工作满一年的员工（包括工厂工人），将能够以80%的工资享受完整产假。

The company ran a trial of the policy among European sales staff over the past two years, and found equal take-up from men and women.

过去两年，该公司在欧洲销售人员中试行了这一政策，发现男女员工对这一政策的接受程度相当。

While generous parental leave is common among Swedish groups, Volvo will roll the policy out to its global workforce, including staff in the US and China.

尽管在瑞典企业中慷慨的产假很常见，但沃尔沃将把这项政策推广至全球员工，包括美国和中国的员工。

“You will never know what the value of this is, but it is often the really important things you cannot directly measure, but you still have to do them,” said chief executive Hakan Samuelsson, who likened the move to the decision to install the first airbags in its cars.

沃尔沃首席执行官汉肯·塞缪尔森（Hakan Samuelsson）表示：“你永远不知道此举价值几何，但你无法直接衡量其价值、还必须去做的，往往是真正重要的事。”他将此举与在汽车上安装第一个安全气囊的决定相提并论。

“It will cost millions of dollars, but it is the right thing to do, and we hope others will follow,” he told the FT.

他向英国《金融时报》表示：“这将耗费数以百万计的美元，但这是正确的做法，我们希望其他企业也能效仿。”

He said the brand, which already trades on safety and sustainability, will also be helped by the move.

他表示，沃尔沃这个品牌也将因此举而受益——该品牌已经在利用安全性和可持续发展提升形象。

“When people hear it is Volvo doing this, I don’t think they will be surprised,” Samuelsson said, predicting that future buyers “will choose brands more on values than on horsepower”.

塞缪尔森表示：“我认为，当人们听说是沃尔沃在做这样的事时，他们不会感到意外。”他预计，未来的买家“将更多地根据价值观，而不是马力来选择品牌”。

The move will also, he believes, increase the number of female managers, in part by removing the stigma of taking extended working breaks.

他认为，此举还将增加女性经理的数量，部分原因在于它消除了长期休假的耻辱感。

“We don’t want to see females overtaken when they have kids.”

“我们不希望看到女性在生育后被取代。”

Currently, a third of Volvo’s senior management are female, but the company aims to raise this to 50 per cent.

目前，沃尔沃高管中有三分之一是女性，但该公司计划将这一比例提高至50%。

“In the long term, our brand will be stronger, because we have better diverse leadership to take the right decisions,” he added.

他补充称：“从长远来看，我们的品牌将更强大，因为我们拥有更多元化的领导层，能够做出正确的决策。”