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isn't this horrifically damaging to family structure in Japan? Yes!

• lifeisstillgood 12y ago
  oh ... I have for a while been working 20 mins from my house, for a university in Texas and other clients. The effect on my relationship with my wife and children was dramatic compared to the slogging commute and long hours (but naught compared to the salaryman stories I hear). We lose sooo much with long commutes and long hours - and yet the gain for companies is trivial especially compared to gains that simple management improvements can make. I spent last year holidaying on the Greek island of Kefalonia - and realised that if I stayed there and worked, I would be six hours out from Texas instead of five. And the holiday "campus" I stayed in was idyllic - and there was very little in my imagination stopping me and 25 other families from parking up there and living and working - I strongly suspect that an ideal arrangement is small clusters of live / work / school environments coming into being.