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Sun weans workers from healthy perk
Topic: Current Events 10:49 pm EDT, Jun 21, 2004

Company Sponsored Lactation Breaks? WTF?!?!. I can't even visualize putting someone on hold so I could go "express".

Maybe, I'm lactation intolerant

In yet another sign that Silicon Valley is no longer the land of milk and honey, Sun Microsystems has cut much of its lactation services to breast-feeding mothers.
During flush times, Sun's lactation support program epitomized for some the best of the Silicon Valley experiment of trying to blend work and life. To others, it symbolized too much blurring of the lines. Now, with Sun struggling to become profitable after three rounds of painful layoffs, some of the outsourced lactation services went on the chopping block.

Nursing mothers at Sun are not happy. "Sun's lactation program was the flagship," said Laureen Hudson, a technical editor at Sun who has a 2-year-old son and is pregnant with her second child. Now that the program is being curtailed, Hudson is angry. "To lash out at women and children like this, I find deplorable."

Sun weans workers from healthy perk



 
 
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