The Many Merits of Taking Paternity Leave (Even as a Freelancer)
y paternity leave started when I deleted Twitter from my phone. It was a Thursday morning and my partner Lorna was in early labour, going through the kind of once-every-half-hour contractions that signal the beginning of the end of life as you know it.
As a freelancer, I don’t have an official parental leave. Or, to follow the deluded logic of the gig economy, as a freelancer in many ways my parental leave was infinite! This was our second child and we were slightly more