When Reed Hastings needed a break from the early days of building Netflix, his board allowed him to live in Italy part time for a year with his family. When Marissa Mayer, the former Yahoo chief executive, had a child, she had a nursery built in the office. When I had a daughter a year ago, I could afford to pay for child care throughout my maternity leave and afterward, so returning to work was seamless.

But the people who are working in warehouses and call centers and retail stores around the country generally have few safety nets. I have a deeper understanding now than when I founded Rent the Runway about the ways these missing safety nets contribute to unemployment and limit social mobility. When I announced our new paid family sick leave plan at our warehouse, for instance, a woman stood up to see whether she could use this policy to care for her daughter, who was scheduled to have a C-section soon. Before that, she had been planning to simply quit her job, without ever telling us why.

This has to change. As a founder of a company that has grown from two employees to 1,200 over the last eight years, I implicitly understand that Rent the Runway would not exist without the dedication and loyalty of our team. Don’t I owe it to the team that got me here to take care of them?

I believe that these new policies are not only in the best interests of our employees but also of Rent the Runway itself, which I’m hoping will see higher retention rates, lower training costs and better overall productivity from more experienced employees. I believe that these new policies will help us retain corporate employees too, or at least those who care about working at a company that takes values seriously: I received more positive feedback about these changes from my corporate team than about any other leadership decision I have ever made.

It’s time for business leaders to step up and fulfill not only their fiduciary duty to shareholders, but also their moral duty to society to treat every worker equally.

We have the power to create the kind of workplace culture we want. And I hope our actions create a ripple effect at companies that will either have to disrupt their own cultures or see millennial and Generation Z employees choose to work at companies that more closely align with their values.

I want Rent the Runway to be an example of what a modern workplace should be — a leader in creating a more human workplace, where the heart is just as important as the head, and where we show that we care about each and every member of our team equally.