Google UK has enhanced its range of family-friendly and fertility benefits.

From April 2024, the technology giant will offer employees four rounds of IVF for them and their partners, additional support for fertility help, adoption and surrogacy and the option to undertake elective egg freezing.

According to the company, supporting employees to build families was “core to our employee-centric culture”.

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Currently, Google’s benefits include a minimum of 18 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and a minimum of 24 weeks for birthing parents.

It also offers flexible working arrangements, onsite lactation rooms and back-up childcare.

Meanwhile, medical insurance will also now cover pregnancy-related conditions such as ectopic pregnancy, retained placenta, postpartum haemorrhage and miscarriage requiring immediate surgical treatment, it added.

Google UK and Ireland VP and Managing Director, Debbie Weinstein, said: “We’re delighted to announce the expansion of our family-building benefits for UK Googlers.

“These benefits will enable us to offer invaluable support to our employees during each stage of growing their families – from preconception through to returning to work.”

She added: “As both a mother and a business leader, I understand both how challenging and rewarding parenthood can be and I’m proud that we’ll soon be able to offer all of our UK-based employees this industry-leading support during these moments that matter.”