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Facebook, Apple Offer Employees Free Egg-Freezing

  • NBC News, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:46 AM
A unique corporate benefit even by Silicon Valley’s standards, Apple and Facebook are both paying for employees to freeze their eggs. “Facebook recently began covering egg freezing, and Apple will start in January,” NBC News reports. “The firms appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons.” According to egg-freezing advocate Brigitte Adams: “Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do.”
 

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