The latest employee benefit? Helping workers have babies.
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More companies are offering to cover the costs of fertility treatments and other family-building services for workers, as they look for ways to recruit talent and stand out from their competitors in a tight labor market.
Old requirements — like a diagnosis of infertility in a heterosexual couple before covering in vitro fertilization — are becoming a relic of the past as employers expand and extend basic benefits to singles and same-sex couples who want to become parents.
With qualified employees in short supply and many dropping out of the workforce amid the "Great Resignation," a number of major companies are rolling out family planning benefits.
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