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This is excellent — I wish more companies took this attitude. Applause for Travis CI.
after a couple of weeks of research, we made a decision to offer our expectant mothers AND fathers: 2 weeks before the due date paid at 100% (optional, but recommended); 20 weeks for normal births paid at 100%; 24 weeks for births with complications paid at 100%; Flexible working hours after the 20/24 weeks are complete (part-time arrangements can be made); Your job will be here for you when you return. When we relayed this information to the two US employees, one became a little teary because her last employer (a much bigger and older company), didn’t offer anything. This being her second child, it was a huge relief to know she was going to have paid time off with flexibility upon return. While it was a great reaction, it shouldn’t happen this way. If you value your employees, you should value their need for time away. At the same time, if you want to hire someone, whether or not they are already pregnant should be irrelevant.
Well exceeding even the Irish maternity leave entitlements, since it covers fathers too. And this is a startup!(tags: travisci startups work life family kids paternity-leave maternity-leave)
Improving The Weather On Twitter
lovely open-source dataviz improvement for near-term historical rainfall-radar images
(tags: dataviz weather rain rainfall radar nws twitter bots graphics ui)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How to Make Effective Use of Colors in Meteorological Visualizations
Linked from the “Improving the Weather On Twitter” post — choosing the “best” colour scheme for meteorological visualization. Great dataviz resource post
(tags: dataviz colour color meteorological weather nws papers rgb hcl)