A fertility specialist reveals what increased demand for egg-freezing means for the workplace

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Employers have made it a point to help employees start their families by adding benefits that include IVF, adoption, fostering and surrogacy support. But what about the growing demand from those who want a family — just not now? 

Over the last few years, family-building benefit solutions provider WINFertility reported seeing a 150% increase in fertility preservation treatments — which refers to any and all clinical efforts to delay the family-building process past what used to be considered conventional. Among the different strategies and procedures they offer, they saw a 500% increase in egg storage in particular. 

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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