Have a Baby, Take Home a New Phone too!
The average age of Japan's citizens is on the rise, while young women have become more comfortable and successful in the workplace and are less likely to have children young. Many employers already offer financial aid and other bonuses to encourage working mothers to have children, but one, Softbank, has taken it a step further, giving away free cell phones and calling plans to those who take time off to propagate our species.
The plan sounds like a nice bonus, but given that almost every man, woman, and child over the age of 10 in Japan already has a mobile phone (which is probably way cooler than yours) we think perhaps free baby sitting and diaper delivery might be a bit more enticing.
From Textually.org
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Melissa @ Aug 14th 2007 2:28PM
That is so cool!! Why can't the US companies do stuff like this? All the people I know who are pregnant can't even afford to take the full 12 weeks of leave granted by our government because it is unpaid. Their companies are offering bonuses and financial aid, meanwhile ours are too busy overpaying thier CEOs.