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Our work schedules are largely inflexible because of the need to coordinate with others. A teacher cannot shift their hours unless the students do so as well. T
by seti0Cha 3y ago
Our work schedules are largely inflexible because of the need to coordinate with others. A teacher cannot shift their hours unless the students do so as well. The students cannot shift their hours if their parents can't provide care under the new schedule. The parents can't shift their hours if they have scheduled responsibilities such opening stores, making deliveries, etc. In short, a great many jobs require that others maintain fixed schedules in order to operate efficiently, so flexible hours is not a general solution.
- bigDinosaur 3y agoIt seems to me that the biggest issue are the start and end times though - we could surely structure work to have more flexible start and end times while keeping most of the day fixed. As for school hours, there have been plenty of proposals and good reasons to change them, and it tends to meet the fate of 'too hard', but I don't see why that's actually true other than people being unwilling to make meaningful change to how we do things (status quo bias).