NEW YORK -- Citing its home base of Sweden, which has extremely generous maternity and paternity leave, Spotify just announced it would offer six months of parental leave to all full-time employees globally, effective immediately.

The music company made the announcement in its New York offices with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who emphasized that the administration is making a push for a paid leave policy right now.

"The fact that the U.S. is the only developed country without a paid leave policy doesnt make sense," Jarrett said, emphasizing that leave increases worker productivity and even profitability. "We really want to have a culture in our country were you can be a working parent and be productive at work."