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Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ... by hnlmorg on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:19PM (#27363247)
No it doesn't. You can still flexible working even if you have a long commute. eg you might work from home 2 days a week. Your employer might allow flexible hours so you can do school duties. Your employer might even offer fewer hours or not mandate overtime.

This isn't a theoretical argument either: I spend more time with the kids and help out with more duties since taking up a job with a 3 hour round trip of a commute than I did when I had a previous job in the same town.

The distance will obviously have an impact on your day, but what matters far more is the employer. Plenty of employers enforce an unhealthy culture of > 40hr weeks. Whereas my current employer is very family focused and offers a lot of incentives to enable parents to balance work and home life.

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Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ... by hnlmorg on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:35AM (#27367046)
Getting down voted for this despite saying I have first hand experience of this being true.

I suggest people open their minds a little. IT is a broad industry and there are plenty of good jobs around doing interesting things that pay well and also offer a good work life balance. Again, I know this from first hand experience :)

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