Why I’m giving my company Election Day off

Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by dominotw on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:35AM (#12473854)

>I think elections should be held on weekends giving the maximum number of voters the opportunity to vote.

Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend [1].

Also,

  Overall the authors note that night and weekend work tends to be less desirable, as it is often performed by people with fewer skills and employers typically offer a premium wage for it.

1.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/08/nearl...

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by mtgx on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:45AM (#12473895)

Make it a Sunday and then make it also a work-free day. Then the impact on companies will be minimal.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by blakeyrat on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:58PM (#12474280)

How could you possibly have a work-free day? Who'd drive the bus taking voters to the polling place? Who'd be manning the emergency room at the local hospital, or driving the ambulances, or enforcing the law, or keeping the power plant running, or spotting for forest fires, or...

I love the concept of a "work-free day", but I'm guessing that something like 5-10% of the workforce is doing infrastructure stuff that needs, absolutely needs, to happen every day simply to keep society functioning.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by jessaustin on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:24PM (#12475124)

I love the concept of a "work-free day"...

I thought I loved this concept, then I worked in Wellington NZ for a few months, and discovered the only time I could possibly grocery shop was on my lunch break. (In fairness, this was over a decade ago, so things might have changed?)

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by kr7 on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:08PM (#12474011)

I hope nobody gets sick that day...

(Or we could just have multi-day early voting. Like most states already do).

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by dominotw on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:49AM (#12473909)

Wouldn't that deny income to people who need it the most? Chance to make extra (premium) income on the weekends.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by justinlardinois on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:49PM (#12475272)

Except the companies that employ that one third of workers who work on weekends.

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