In your article about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to make employees who work at home report to the office, you quote several Boston-area women on how important it is to be able to work from home (“No going back for those working at home,” Page A1, Feb. 27). I thought the quotes smacked of elitism.
For example, a vice president of a Framingham company said, “It’s really important to me to be able to cook a healthy dinner instead of sitting in traffic.” Is the chance to balance work and life with a flexible schedule something given only to higher-status, higher-pay women, or does it extend to people such as single mothers working minimum wage?
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Yes, let's let the cashiers work from home, after all most barely acknowledge a customer's existence. Working from home is a possible perk for working towards a job that is not minimum wage. These people are also on salary and work more hours, but do not get paid for each hour like minimum wage workers. Just because I didn't work for it, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the best, victim mentality...