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    Apple and Facebook's creepy HR policies for women employees

    Synopsis

    Think for a minute about the Apple and Facebook employee who does not want to avail of this wonderful opportunity to temporarily get off the career hobby horse.

    ET Bureau
    The seed, it seems, no longer has to fall far from the Apple tree. Or from the Facebook bush. The two giants of hardware and social media have announced that as part of their employees’ benefits package, they will offer elective egg freezing. While you may moan in envy as you recall the battle you fought to get an office microwave oven, we suggest you take a step back and see the gesture for what it could be.

    Think for a minute about the Apple and Facebook employee who does not want to avail of this wonderful opportunity to temporarily get off the career hobby horse and stick to more traditional methods of producing future members of the human workforce. Of course, the egg-freezing and becoming a mummy at the 'right time' is totally voluntary. Like the way participating in after-office team-building exercises and power-lunching with the boss are.

    But one can suppose that the Apple and Facebook employee who sticks to standard reproductive procedures — at the cost of standard production procedures — won’t be top ‘Employee of the Month’ candidate. The next step, we are certain, will be in cryogenics: the option of being frozen after death, until technology is advanced enough to resurrect you — and get you back to the workstation. It won’t be about ‘work-life balance’ then. It'll be about the work-death one.
    ( Originally published on Oct 17, 2014 )

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