[confuseddesi]

Looking at this dataset, the balance of benefits here seems more tailored to deferring children (eg. egg freezing) vs. embracing children and providing benefits to make it easier to have them (eg. in-office daycare, part time work schedules). I wish these employers would focus more on the latter and build upon benefits they already offer like parental leave instead of incentivizing the delaying of children to further one’s career.

Edit: upon reflection, even free meals outside of lunch are not really a meaningful benefit to parents who want to have those meals with their families.

[tick_tock_tick]

Too many people especially in high income fields like tech have partners making comparable amounts of money. If they do choose to have kids tons of them leave the normal workforce.

When they do come back after kids to how do you keep them on a comparable promotion/management track as their peers? Unless you give them a ridiculously small amount of time off by the time they come back there peers will be a year ahead of them, all their networking will have atrophied, and they will have no major project to push to show off or will have to be sharing credit with whoever took over when they were gone.

Incentivizing not having kids early instead of making having kids easy sidesteps a ton of these issues. These companies goal to get a good gender balance not necessary facilitate the life choices an employee wants to make.

[nogabebop23]

well, benefits are intended to attract talent but designing ones that also provided added value to the company is a real bonus. I worked high end consulting in an earlier life and never paid for a dinner, drink or cover charge. The team also worked out of town weeks on end until 9pm+ before eating and often went back to the client's office afterwards. A few grand a month spent by the company equated to hundreds of extra billable hours. EA sports had foosball, an arcade and onsite meals which was a great way to encourage you to spend 12-14 hours at work.

Now I want as much vacation as I can get. I'd happily trade 20% salary for 12+ weeks of vacation. THis doesn't fit with how most of these compoaniesoperate though.