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Re:Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help by dragonwriter on Monday November 11, 2013 @02:00PM (#6713232)
Its often important that organizations that work together have operational time off that aligns well most of the time, because misalignments create latency in decision loops and, therefore, inefficient use of resources.

When you start tracing the dependencies between organizations throughout the economy, you start seeing why having a widely shared set of shared working days and working hours actually makes quite a bit of sense from that perspective.

Re:Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help by dllthomas on Monday November 11, 2013 @02:27PM (#6713403)
That is unquestionably a concern. I think you overrate it, though. Having more diversity in working hours would often lower latency, as there's someone available during off-hours rather than having huge gaps. We're also already dealing with a certain amount of distribution with timezones in (sorry for the cliche) "our increasingly globalized world" - I don't see that spreading that around more is going to cause more problems than it solves. As pointed out elsewhere, spreading out peak usage of things like roads and electricity provides significant benefit.