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Commuting should count as work
by adultSwim 8y ago
Commuting should count as work
- megablast 8y agoOh no, lets not reward people who do not value their time, and choose to live further from work than others.
- 3chelon 8y agoI've lived where I live for 18 years. I've been in my current job less than a year. Does that justify pulling my kids out of school just before they do their exams so I can move house? Where you live is not a simple choice for many of us. History of previous jobs, family commitments, schools, house prices, etc., etc... Like lots of things, it's a compromise.
- notfromhere 8y agoNot everyone can afford to live in the city center or is able to freely move to be next to their job.
- syeaj 8y agoThen cities need to invest into noise reduction, pollution reduction, etc. Maybe it's not that people don't value their time, but rather value not walking streets which smell like trash.
- Raphmedia 8y agoEven living in the same city taking the subway + a bus, you can end up wasting up to 90 minutes in commute daily.
- 3chelon 8y agoThat's a difficult one. I have a 2 hour commute. If I treated it as work I'd only have to spend 4 hours in the office. Not sure I'd get away with that. On the flip side, having a long commute gets me preferential treatment re. remote working, so it's swings and roundabouts.
- jeletonskelly 8y agoWhen the driverless utopia is finally realized we'll all have desks in our cars to make sure we're actually working on the commute.
- Nasrudith 8y agoIt does but only in sufficiently remote jobs. Oil rig commuting and business trips for instance - the standard is from "home base" workplace usually unless it is quicker to say take your work truck home and go directly to the work site some days.