Would You Trust Your Job to Freeze Your Eggs?
A growing number of businesses overseas are offering egg-freezing as an employee benefit - but the implications and responsibilities are hazy. In today's The Kicker episode, Celie Hay and Matt Harvey unpack the egg-freezing process, and determine the likelihood of a similar benefit being offered in Australia.
In 2014, Facebook introduced egg freezing as an employee benefit after one of their employees were diagnosed with cancer. Since then, a range of Silicon Valley companies have introduced the benefit, but we are yet to see it take off in Australia.
Reporter Matt Harvey chats with host Celie Hay about the deeper implications of companies paying to freeze employee’s eggs and Dr Molly Johnston from Monash University shares her research on if Australian companies will start to introduce the benefit.
All episodes are written, researched, recorded and produced by students of the RMIT Graduate Diploma in Journalism.
Find host Celie Hay on twitter: @celie_hay
Find reporter Matt Harvey on twitter: @MattHarveyStuff
Find producer Jaci Hicken on twitter: @jacican
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Find The Kicker on twitter: @kickerpod
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Find series producer Ryland Sack on twitter: @rysack
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Original music: @rysack
Reporter Matt Harvey chats with host Celie Hay about the deeper implications of companies paying to freeze employee’s eggs and Dr Molly Johnston from Monash University shares her research on if Australian companies will start to introduce the benefit.
All episodes are written, researched, recorded and produced by students of the RMIT Graduate Diploma in Journalism.
Find host Celie Hay on twitter: @celie_hay
Find reporter Matt Harvey on twitter: @MattHarveyStuff
Find producer Jaci Hicken on twitter: @jacican
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Find The Kicker on twitter: @kickerpod
Find The Kicker on instagram: @thekicker.pod
Find series producer James Gaunt on twitter: @jamesrgaunt
Find series producer Ryland Sack on twitter: @rysack
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Original music: @rysack