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When companies gave free lunch, dinner, breakfast, hair cutting, laundry etc, weren’t those things favoring the young? For people who had family, at least for

• closeparen 6y ago
  Why on earth wouldn’t a parent be able to eat the free lunch? Or drop off the dry cleaning in a box at the office instead of a dedicated storefront along the way? Or get their hair cut between meetings? For us dinner was provided as a courtesy in case we worked late. Some younger people stayed for it every day; it’s true that only a few parents did that (ones with bad commutes waiting for traffic to die down). But there would also be random other parents who happened to work late that day, maybe half the time.
• BobbyJo 6y ago
  They were favoring people with less of a homestead, which tend to be the young. And really I think that only applies to the laundry. From my time at Google, I'd honestly say the demographics present for free meals didn't tend toward any age. Plenty of people starting a family room advantage of the cost savings free meals provided.
• gandutraveler 6y ago
  That's a lame argument. To counter parents would bring their entire family for dinners at my company? Who did it benefit more ?