I share your interest in these studies, and was quite hopeful to see traffic go down in my neck of the woods. Didn't happen. > If companies broadly reject work

I share your interest in these studies, and was quite hopeful to see traffic go down in my neck of the woods. Didn't happen. > If companies broadly reject work from home policies would they also reject peak shifting policies? This has actually been "recommended" by the French government after the first lockdown ended. Of course, I haven't actually measured this, but my subjective impression is that basically nobody applied this, not even in public transport. During peak hour trains were still very full, despite some employers allowing partial remote working. The issue, at least is France, is that the workday is basically 9 AM to 6 PM. Add to that an hour of commute and stores outside big cities closing around 8 PM (ie where people have long commutes), and people can't shift the work day later. They could shift it earlier, but they usually don't like getting up early, and there also seems to be, to some, some kind of stigma attached to people leaving "early".