Facebook allows its US employees to take up to four months of paid parental leave - time which can be used at once or throughout the child's first year.
Mr Zuckerberg announced in July that he was expecting a baby girl with his wife, Priscilla Chan. He did not say who would be replacing him at the company.
In his statement, accompanied by a picture of a pushchair and his dog, Mr Zuckerberg, 31, said: "Studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families."
Facebook, the world's biggest online social network, allows its U.S. employees to take up to four months of paid maternity or paternity leave, which can be used all at once or throughout the first year of their child's life, a policy which is generous by U.S. standards. Zuckerberg announced in July that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were expecting a baby girl.
"This is a very personal decision," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page, along with a picture of a stroller, a yellow baby carrier and his dog, Beast. "Studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families."
