Even to ask that question seems an affront to corporate generosity.
Analysts praise the move as a way to build loyalty among employees.
Parents should be thrilled at the prospect of help in making their children computer literate. The reasons for the giveaways took different forms in each firm. There, too, the logic is unassailable. If you really care about doing a good job, you'll like having access to your work at home. How much easier it will be, evenings and weekends, to tidy up that one loose end without driving back to your office workstation.