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In days of yore they had a mechanism so that if an employer ever let it come to that, there would be financial repercussions. I believe they called it "time an

• qntm 15y ago
  Point being, no amount of money can replace time spent off work with your family. What are you going to do, pay your spouse and children as an alternative to actually eating dinner with them? Only replacement time can make up for that sacrifice.
  • philwelch 15y ago
    Except when you take flex time out of the working day, it doesn't come at dinnertime, it comes when your spouse is still at work and your kids are still at school or maybe at their afterschool thing.
  • ojbyrne 15y ago
    Actually my point was, that rather than an absolute ("no amount of time can replace time spent off work with family"), there was a market mechanism that did a pretty good job of letting individual employees/employers manage the tradeoffs between work and non-work. Somehow (Republicans) that mechanism became deprecated, and has been replaced by conflict and bullshit.