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Lunchtime Botox anyone?

Would $25,000 (164,000 yuan) for IVF treatment be helpful?

How about an on-site nursery place... for your pet?

Fortune Magazine has revealed that top companies offer some pretty fancy perks to attract employees.

Staff sweeteners include a Latin-style dance exercise called Zumba to improve employee well-being and motivation.

Really stressed-out employees may develop frown lines. But at one company staff whose faces are showing the strain can have Botox treatment during their lunch break at the company's own clinic.

Another company offers the corporate jet to bereaved employees, while one employer gives staff who are finding it difficult to get pregnant $25,000 towards IVF treatment.

But for the business commentator Lucy Kellaway, some companies go too far in trying to help employees achieve a good work-life balance.

"Such benefits, even the nice ones, are all pretty creepy" she says. "There ought to exist a boundary between employer and employee - between home and work. And Botox and IVF are a long way on the wrong side of it."

For Ms Kellaway, the real proof of a top employer is not its touchy-feely benefits but whether staff choose to stay put for a long time.

Glossary 词汇表

IVF treatment 人工授精治疗 

fancy perks 花里胡哨的额外福利 

well-being 康乐/幸福 

to be stressed-out 精疲力尽的 

bereaved 刚刚丧失亲人的 

creepy 离奇的 

touchy-feely 过于感情外露夸张的 

an on-site nursery 办公区的幼儿园 

sweeteners 好处，甜头 

motivation 动力 

showing the strain 呈现出压力 

work-life balance 工作与生活的平衡 

a boundary 边界/限度 

to stay put 留守不动