> But I'd respect a company far more that just paid you over the market rate, didn't shell out as a company for extra services, and let you use your own money t

> But I'd respect a company far more that just paid you over the market rate, didn't shell out as a company for extra services, and let you use your own money to decide what services you needed to manage your own life. As a programmer, our job is to make decisions all the time - how to design the software. That leads to decision fatigue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue ). One part of that is "if people are making choices that aren't important to work, they're less productive at work." Here's a decision to make - what do you have for breakfast? Where do you go for lunch? And so on... Granted, these are trivial decisions to make - but they're decisions none the less. What if... the company could give you catered breakfasts and lunches? Or even to the point of back in the dot com boom I recall tales of a big tech company that even allowed you to set the billing address for things like rent and the like and it would be a payroll deduction with the company handling it for you. Those extra services are certainly there to entice and ensnare people who don't make those decisions themselves... but they're also there to try to improve productivity.