this is so ridiculous it is sad that it will receive a huge amount of comments and drive traffic to this utterly ridiculous post. First of all, I don't believe

this is so ridiculous it is sad that it will receive a huge amount of comments and drive traffic to this utterly ridiculous post. First of all, I don't believe Mayer or Sandberg are asking/ demanding/ or hinting that employees need to give up everything. The economics of the job market and organization health don't really back that up (whether you're 'changing the world or not'). Second - as many people are mentioning here - the demand and economic returns to different employee levels completely skew the "Mayer gives up everything" - she (and Sandberg) also receive completely different benefits and calculate their commitment/ lifestyle tradeoffs with a totally different set of inputs & outputs from the hypothetical Yahoo! front-end guy who has been off-siting for 18 months... the whole thesis is beyond comprehension. The author of this post who "lives on a farm homeschooling her 2 children" has lost touch with reality/ is actually quite smart at driving page views, but is nonetheless wrong.