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Swiss companies cover egg freezing costs for work-life balance (www.swissinfo.ch)

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The first companies in Switzerland are covering the costs of egg freezing.

Since October began, multiple companies, including the pharmaceutical giant Merck, have started covering the expenses associated with egg freezing for female employees opting for this precautionary measure.

Florian Schick, the Director of Merck Switzerland, highlighted this initiative as a key component of fostering a better work-life balance during an interview with the Keystone-SDA news agency. The overarching goal is to contribute to the establishment of a more inclusive and diverse working environment. ...

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[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Work-life balance as in "work in your best years, live later" or what?

I mean, it's nice they pay for it, however actual work-life balance would mean that they enable a balance that allows both parents to raise their kids when they want. Or you know.. we could do that as an overall policy without the companies chiming in.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed

This is dystopian af

[–] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt you will see policy better than what the EU already has on offer for a long time. FWIW with nothing more than the state child-care pay both me and my wife stayed home for a year when we had twins, but this is a function of my salary up till then and many people would not be able to afford both parents to stay home just from child-care pay.

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

From what I know about the different systems out there, the German one seems to provide a lot of the flexibility and off-time that I would wish for Switzerland. Companies filling the void of proper modern child care policies with paying for egg freezing is the neoliberal perversion that we've come to expect from "free market solutions". This is not meant as an insult to women that do want to go this way and actively decide to do so, but it just doesn't seem like a reasonable solution to the lack of good child care policies.