Ask HN: Does your work offer to freeze your eggs? What are your benefits?

This is just another way to get you to prioritize work (them) over family (you).

Putting things off for later tends to mean putting them off forever. You aren't getting any healthier. Running after little ones isn't easier when you are old. Maybe you freeze a few... but is that enough? Maybe you will really like having kids.

Also, freezers fail. I think it was just a few months back that a large facility had a huge failure that wiped things out for a huge number of couples. Oopsie, so sorry! Getting a refund is unsatisfying when you were expecting a child born of your own flesh and blood.

I can't answer the question and I certainly don't want to judge someone else's family planning.

However, I think this particular perk raises some interesting questions:

My first thought was that this is the ultimate in deferred life plans.

However, it also allows people to keep their options open and not sacrifice one opportunity for the other.

Perhaps, it's even a good counter argument to rationalising judging people by their sex rather than skill ("She can get pregnant so we better hire the male candidate.").

Nevertheless, it's in some way representative of a traditional work culture that values time over outcome and that considers time spent outside of work as something inherently bad or at least questionable.

It shows that the employer in this case exerts some degree of control over not just your working life but your life outside of work as well. At the very least because freezing your eggs brings about the expectation that you won't get pregnant all the same.

I don't think so; we do get about a year of parental leave though, when someone wants a kid they just have one and their employer doesn't really have a say in the timeline.

My employer pays up to $50k for fertility services like this and IVF.

You need pre-approval and many costs are waived if you use a designated center of excellence.

I would think that employers would prefer to hire people that already have children if they now have to subsidize their employees ability to procreate.

I'm not a woman, but I'm single and middle age (36) and want to have healthy children eventually. Are sperm freezing services offered to men as part of work benefits anywhere?