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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by basisword on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:05PM (#40743366)
>> I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

That was more because half the planet was told not to leave their homes. Sure, stopping commutes had an impact on pollution, but the roads were literally empty in major cities - that wasn't because people could suddenly WFH.

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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by dogman144 on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:14PM (#40743470)
The roads being empty at their peak commute hours probably had something to do with it…
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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by jazzyjackson on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:20PM (#40743525)
I think the point is jobs that can be done from a computer are not necessarily the bulk of jobs that require commuting.
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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by threetonesun on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:20PM (#40744069)
One could argue that in an ever so slightly better society all jobs wouldn't require commuting because you could live near where you work. Most of commuting comes down to the other side of the remote work problem, people can only find affordable housing that's so far from their jobs that it requires them to commute.
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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by dogman144 on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:32PM (#40743631)
Somehow, all those jobs got done without commutes for years during COVID. So a lot don’t seem to require commuting.
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Re:More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work by squigz on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:59PM (#40743891)
They all got done? What?
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