Of course companies want their employees to work more. And I'm from the "exercise your RSU's immediately" school of thought as well. All I was pointing out is

Of course companies want their employees to work more. And I'm from the "exercise your RSU's immediately" school of thought as well. All I was pointing out is that imo, the study is flawed in its central argument. As for the benefits, while it is true that most companies don't offer all of those benefits, it's offset by the fact that the larger companies do. Most large companies have shuttles now, for instance. So, the % of engineers who have these benefits is higher now than it was in, say, 2009 :) I think that benefits that are actually used are more valuable than they appear to be because they are untaxed. But of course, depending on what your indifference curve looks like, you might well prefer post-tax cash to pre-tax benefits.