Marissa mayer from yahoo is pg

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Sept 1, 2015 10:21:56 GMT -5 felicity said:

Sept 1, 2015 10:01:48 GMT -5 SJ said:

But not everyone at the company deserves the same perks! They have different roles and titles and qualifications and strengths and weaknesses.

Not everything has to be equal to be fair. Do you really think every employee at Yahoo "deserves" a built-in nursery?

I don't think all employees should have the same perks as senior managers, but I think the private nursery is taking it a bit far. I think she should have opened a daycare in the building that was open to all employees that she also used herself. 

A friend of mine who works at Google's Mountain View HQ had a kid a few months ago. She visited Seattle when she was pg and at one point the conversation moved to their child care situation. There's one onsite daycare at Google, it's more expensive than every private center they looked at, and the waitlist is a billion people long.

I say this mostly to point out that "opened a daycare in the building that was open to all employees" is tough. What are they going to do, hold a lottery, then kick someone's kid out when the CEO has one? Well what about the COO? Or this or that Senior VP? Plus the CEO is not an in the office 9-5 kind of job anyway, it might not even be a good use of a spot.

#anecdotes

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Sept 1, 2015 11:35:28 GMT -5 minniemouse said:

She is in a no win situation. No matter what she does people will criticize.

True story. Being CEO is not a "normal" job at all, so I get why she would want/need* to go back quickly. But Yahoo upped its parental leave policy to compete with peer employers, so I could see how she might want/need* to set the tone.

*I think it's impossible for anyone not named Marissa Meyer to figure out whether she "really" wants to take such a short ML. It could be a little of one and a lot of the other, but from the outside it's just impossible to say.

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I really can't work my self into a tizzy. I don't see it as any different from any executive level man going back to work. It isn't like she will be taking the bus or subway to work, or having to walk 5 miles to meetings. her kids will have the care they need, and so will she. It is not the standard experience of the high level women I worked with who were pulling down really good money, but lacked the office support to bring their twins to work, and many had twins, since they were at the top end of AMA, since they were building their careers to get to that level. Many had SAHD or at least a significant amount of family support in the early years, even at much lower levels than she is.

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Sept 1, 2015 17:45:13 GMT -5 @mrsbecky said:

I can't figure out where I stand here. I absolutely agree with @choco about her setting the tone for the company.

But I also agree with @sarajoy1234 et al that a CEO is a unique position and CEOs do lots of things that aren't going to be expected of the average employee - and are compensated accordingly.

This is where I'm at. I see both sides. I think it's truly a lose-lose situation for her. Which is unfortunate for her and speaks to a lot of issues around maternity leave.