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When Priya and her husband discovered they were infertile, it cost them $20,000 and years of intrusive treatment to conceive their daughter.
A couple of years later when they had their son, it was free and relatively painless — thanks in large part to her employer who footed the bill and helped arrange the procedure.
“The entire experience, between what we went through before ... and after, was night and day,” said Priya, a Seattle-based senior program manager whose company introduced a fertility treatment program after the birth of her first child.
“Being infertile is something you can never plan for,” she continued. “Having power over your own decision, when most of being infertile means you don’t have any, is a game-changer.”
It may sound beyond the realms of employer responsibility, but Priya’s experience is not unique. She is one of a growing number of employees benefiting from the latest category of workplace perk: fertility benefits.
From egg freezing to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, employees are increasingly enjoying a full suite of fertility benefits as companies look for new ways to attract top talent and boost their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) credentials in an increasingly competitive jobs landscape.
As of 2020, more than two-fifths (42%) of large U.S. employers — those with over 20,000 staff — offered coverage for IVF treatment, while almost one-fifth (19%)...
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