Does it? You are still working the same hours, it’s just that you are spending some of those hours driving. I suppose if you like driving more than your actual job?
On the other hand, it makes your labor more expensive, and thus you are less competitive if other people happen to work closer. Why pay someone 8 hours of pay for 4 hours of work when you can pay someone 8 hours of pay for 8 hours of work, either because they live next door or they work remotely?
That rewards employees for living as far away from the office as possible. Is that a fair thing to do? I seriously don’t know.
you’re right, let’s scrap offices altogether and wfh 100%
Something tells me there might be a middle ground here.
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I’m not sure why you’re talking to me like I’m suggesting some sort of crazy thing when I wasn’t even making any suggestions…
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Sometimes you just gotta pick someone to reply to the whole conversation going on
Not rewards, incentivises, means the employer has a larger labor pool to pick from, which in capitalism is good.
But isn’t making commutes longer a bad thing? Especially for the planet? And this is encouraging it.
It makes commuting/commuters more expensive, so financially it incentivises remote work–which is objectively a better alternative.
I agree remote work is a better alternative. I was just addressing this idea of paying people to commute.
Capitalism in general is bad for the planet
Decent public transportation can offset this easily
At which point they say, “if we’re paying you to sit on the train, you can do some work while you’re sitting there.”
Then hey, I can get some of my 8 hrs done on the train and only have to sit in the office for 6 hours! Sounds like a win-win to me.
Does it? You are still working the same hours, it’s just that you are spending some of those hours driving. I suppose if you like driving more than your actual job? On the other hand, it makes your labor more expensive, and thus you are less competitive if other people happen to work closer. Why pay someone 8 hours of pay for 4 hours of work when you can pay someone 8 hours of pay for 8 hours of work, either because they live next door or they work remotely?