Return To Office is all about power

Re:Return To Office is all about power by happytoexplain on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:06PM (#38088022)

Even a 30 minute commute is ~240 hours a year of miserably wasted time that we give for free to employers (generously, if we ignore the actual chair-to-chair time). When you consider how the nature of our society highly optimizes for filling time, even one hour a day becomes a sacrifice - because that hour is not coming out of your work time, or your sleep time, or your cooking time, or your chores/responsibilities time - it is coming out of your life, and your family's life.

On top of that, no matter how much you improve the major cities, there will always be tons of people not working somewhere with a public transportation line to work.

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Re:Return To Office is all about power by ilrwbwrkhv on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:05PM (#38088906)

I think a short commute is ok. It gives people time to clear their minds and is a liminal space which allows a transition to occur. They can catch up on a short episode or read a book. The fact that our society optimizes filling every single second is a personal issue and also a societal issue but it it definitely not the right way.

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Re:Return To Office is all about power by b_smark on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:12PM (#38093452)

"They can catch up on a short episode or read a book."

My house is a bit too close to the street for me to be comfortable with the idea of people reading books while they drive to work.

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