Virgin Just Upped the Ante for Other Companies With Its New Parental Leave Policy

By Rachel Gillett

Until today, when you considered the best companies for working parents, you may have thought of companies like Facebook and Google.

Now Virgin is giving them a run for their money.

In an announcement Monday morning by Virgin Management, Virgin Group Founder Richard Branson and Virgin Management CEO Josh Bayliss blew other companies out of the water by releasing a shared policy of up to one year fully paid leave for new parents.