Exelixis Benefits: Evolving With You
In August of 2021, we began our evolution.
We increased the wellness subsidy, added an adoption assistance program, offered a child care tuition subsidy, added ten weeks to our parental leave policy, improved the short-term disability benefit, and increased bereavement leave. And we were just getting started.
Take a look at how we’re evolving with you below.
2021
- Increased wellness subsidy
- Added adoption assistance
- Launched child care tuition subsidy
- Increased parental leave to 12 weeks
- Increased short-term disability benefit
- Increased bereavement leave
- Added 2 Wellness Holidays
- Removed missing tooth exclusion
2022
- Offered new, larger dental network with improved coverage
- Added infertility rider and hearing aids coverage to Kaiser
- Added family planning benefits, including fertility benefits and a surrogacy subsidy for Blue Shield
- Provided choice in vision coverage
- Added Modern Health
- Expanded the child care tuition subsidy to all employees
- Increased coverage for long-term disability, basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, and voluntary employee life insurance
- Increased Employer match to $11K and added automatic ROTH in-plan conversion
- Added Milk Stork program
- Launched new benefits website
2023
- Continued to expand and improve benefit offerings to ensure that they’re diverse, equitable, and inclusive
- Improved dental coverage
- Added financial wellness benefit
- Added gender-affirming benefits
- Added paid caregiver leave
- Added paid grandparent leave
- Added pet care
- Improved legal services
- Added DEI floating holiday
- Increased childcare subsidy
2024
- Implemented voluntary critical illness and accident
2025
- Exelixis to front load the HSA going forward
- HSA – fully fund the deductibles in 2025
- Added menopause support
- Adjusted contributions for PPO to 15%, static % for Kaiser, and static $ for all other plans