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San Francisco passes work-from-home mandate to fight climate change
- mmm_grayons 6y agoJust as I feared, the government has abused so-called "emergency measures" to exert an unprecedented level of control over Americans' lives. Give an inch and they'll take a mile.
- siculars 6y agoSo, um, did SF just permanently end their commercial real-estate market? Add this to the other interesting government initiatives launched in CA this week and you have to wonder why all businesses are not flocking to relocate to CA.
- bmmayer1 6y agoSeems to me this regulation will have two very predictable outcomes: 1) For companies who want employee proximity, the companies will flee San Francisco 2) For companies who remain, the employees will flee San Francisco Given that climate change is lower on a per capita basis the higher the population density and the economies of scale it offers, it seems this bill will have the exact opposite effect as to its intent.
- tylerjwilk00 6y agoI never understood this logic. Outsourcing energy, building materials, and food production doesn't absolve a metro of it's climate impact.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoHeadline is wrong, it's not San Francisco. From the NBCNews report: > Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional government agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, voted Wednesday to move forward with a proposal to require people at large, office-based companies to work from home three days a week as a way to slash greenhouse gas emissions from car commutes.
- papa 6y agoYeah this is just poor reporting by the NYPost. It looks like this mandate is part of a 30-year long range planning proposal. It doesn't appear there's any regional or municipal legislation or business impacts tied to this in the short-run. No doubt we have our share of idiotic proposals in the Bay Area, but this is definitely a misleading headline. Here's an article that offers more context and concerns from SF politicians on the plan: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Bay-Area-planning-agency-advances-60-work-from-15592276.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Bay-Area-planni...
- papa 6y agoAlso per the Chronicle article linked above: "The Plan Bay Area Blueprint for 2050 was shaped by online public feedback this year during the coronavirus pandemic. The plan is expected to be adopted by next summer, but any legal mandates on remote work would require future legislation."
- kelnos 6y agoI can't imagine that the MTC has the legal authority to do something like that.
- avalys 6y agoThis is insanity. How do they even have the authority to do this?
- Slix 6y agoI'm confused. I doubt that the "Metropolitan Transportation Commission" has the power to enforce something like this.
- throwaway0956 6y agoWhy is California becoming so radicalized? It seems like almost every week we hear about some insanity that keeps driving business and people away from the state.