My flex time experience going from 5 8s to 4 10s: No rush hour means daily time away from home went from 8 + 1 lunch + 2 times (1) commute = 11 hours to 10 + 1

My flex time experience going from 5 8s to 4 10s: No rush hour means daily time away from home went from 8 + 1 lunch + 2 times (1) commute = 11 hours to 10 + 1 lunch + 2 times (.33) commute = 11 hours 40 minutes. So I'm trading 40 minutes per working day away from home, for a 3 day weekend every week... Also I'm sure you won't be surprised that only driving to work 4 times instead of 5, saves me nearly 20% of my commute expense, which does add up over time. That's 40 miles a week, which is about 1.3 gallons of gas or the IRS thinks its worth $22.40 per week or well over a thousand bucks a year posttax lets call it "two grand per year" pretax. I work at home on occasion due to winter weather or illness or whatever reason, and that's pretty nice. I would work at home much more other than local interdepartmental jealousy type issues that prevent it. Organizationally I already work with people all over the country and once you're 500 miles from your "closest" coworker (by some metric of closeness, I guess) then no one cares what office you're in or if you're at home. Obviously this doesn't work at one site open plan startups, but its OK for a megacorp size employer.