UNDATED -- Technology is allowing employers to offer specialized health care coverage. Some employers are offering fertility services as a job perk to female employees.
Apple and Facebook will freeze the eggs of employees so they can wait until later in life to have children.
Facebook told our news partner USA TODAY-- the company will even pay up to $20 thousand for the procedure. Facebook also offers adoption and surrogacy assistance and "a host of other fertility services for male and female employees." And Apple offers offers egg freezing and storage, extended maternity leave, adoption assistance and infertility treatments.
According to USA TODAY, a typical round of egg-freezing costs about $10,000, with $500 or more in fees each year for storage. Two rounds are usually necessary to harvest about 20 eggs, which is considered ideal.
As far as caring for kids when the arrive, some Google offices provide on-site daycare.Facebook does not, but it does offer couples who give birth or adopt $4,000 in "baby cash."
Sources: http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/local/2-wants-to-know/2015/01/20/apple-google-usa-today-fertility-/22052193/
Apple and Facebook will freeze the eggs of employees so they can wait until later in life to have children.
Facebook told our news partner USA TODAY-- the company will even pay up to $20 thousand for the procedure. Facebook also offers adoption and surrogacy assistance and "a host of other fertility services for male and female employees." And Apple offers offers egg freezing and storage, extended maternity leave, adoption assistance and infertility treatments.
According to USA TODAY, a typical round of egg-freezing costs about $10,000, with $500 or more in fees each year for storage. Two rounds are usually necessary to harvest about 20 eggs, which is considered ideal.
As far as caring for kids when the arrive, some Google offices provide on-site daycare.Facebook does not, but it does offer couples who give birth or adopt $4,000 in "baby cash."
Sources: http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/local/2-wants-to-know/2015/01/20/apple-google-usa-today-fertility-/22052193/
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