Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by dougmwne on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:28PM
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The people who say this usually have a quick walk around the block to the office or a pleasant bike ride through a city park, not a 2 hour slog.
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Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by assimpleaspossi on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:30PM
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The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by JohnFen on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:37PM
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This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by assimpleaspossi on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:21PM
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Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by the_af on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:00PM
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> The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work
The majority of people where, exactly? Your comment doesn't seem context-aware.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by assimpleaspossi on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:21PM
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On planet Earth.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by the_af on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:51PM
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Ok, I'll bite. Where are the statistics supporting that?
In my case (Buenos Aires, IT work) it used to be the case that people all over the city and surrounding areas had to commute to the city's "microcenter" (what we call the financial/historical district), resulting in typical commute times of 1 to 2 hours. Dreadful.
So your statement doesn't ring true for us in Buenos Aires.
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by assimpleaspossi on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:01PM
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Does it hold true for the rest of the country? As in most of the country?
Re:Australians fight for the right to work from home permane...
by the_af on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:43PM
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I think it's better in the rest of the country, but since (unlike say in the US) a disproportionate number of Argentinians are concentrated in Buenos Aires, and the major tech companies are here, the rest of the country doesn't really matter in this context (with a few exceptions that don't even come close to Buenos Aires).
What statistics are you working with to support your point about planet Earth?