There are clear benefits to physical collaboration – in one room – with your colleagues, and clear benefits to being able to concentrate with a minimum of distraction in a familiar setting and maximizing time around personal needs.

And while it sounds like an office-based nursery is a double standard, there is only one CEO who is personally on the hook for all the good an bad that happens there (not to mention the massive security risk of having her children open to easy access). There are also, no doubt, many employees there who are taking advantage of the situation.

That said, their approach to communications and their approach to fixing this problem is nothing less than amateurish. At a minimum, allowing Yahoo! workers to create their own mandatory in-office day schedule and building out day care facilities could have helped. It’s idiotic to expect a change like this to be accepted and happen overnight.