The "dial-a-salary" idea would be great. I wish I could work less sometimes, but I have always worked at companies that have a limited amount of "unpaid time o

The "dial-a-salary" idea would be great. I wish I could work less sometimes, but I have always worked at companies that have a limited amount of "unpaid time off." If you take off more than X days during a year, you are fired. Period. Firing someone for requesting a voluntary pay cut? Ridiculous. I guess it's probably related to the reluctance to let people work from home. It's about keeping up the image. A corporation doesn't want people to let on to the fact that sometimes there isn't as much work to do, or sometimes there is really no need to physically be in an office building.