The American workplace needs to change. Telecommuting, flex-time, e-meetings, and 4 day weeks needs to become the rule, not the exception. People need to be paid for their work, not their hours (and not just in a piecework fashion, but in an actual percentage of contribution manner).
The 1950s paradigm of everyone driving to work at the same time is ridiculous in the Information Age.
The American workplace needs to change.
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Just like when a weather situation or a ‘shut down’, the Govt ends up paying for the time missed, and at times order ‘non essential’ personnel to stay home.
Now if that word ever came out and I had been on 12 months sick leave (whatever) I would come to work because ONE DAY some one is going to figure out NON ESSENTIAL means NON ESSENTIAL ie - Don’t really need your hind parts taking up space and oxygen and DOLLARS out of my profit so we will streamline and send all the NON ESSENTIALs home for good.
Government is the only business where you don’t have to show a profit etc even though they will ‘shut you down’ because your business doesn’t show a profit.
Anytime you have to hire more people to determine whether you should hire more people, then hire more people to shut down the people who decided to hire more people, you are just marking time.
Like the man once said...
‘BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT RUN IN CIRCLES, FOR THEY SHALL BE KNOWN AS WHEELS’.
It's already like that here, in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the past, heavy traffic was confined to the 7-8am and 4-6 pm time periods. Now it's pretty much all day, 6am-7pm. Crowded roads, lots of traffic, streets and malls full of people all day long. My younger daughter has worked flex-time and telecommuting for the last fifteen years, didn't make a difference when she was in Kansas, Texas or here as she did much of her work telecommuting. At her new job here, she works in the office two days, and telecommutes from home three days. Many of her co-workers have similar arrangements.
Streets seem more crowded at all times of the day now. People are not stuck in offices, they get out and around all day adding to day-long congestion. I remember in the past, my father commuting from SF to his job at Alameda Naval Air station - traffic flowed at 50mph across the Bay Bridge during rush hour. In the 1950s and 1960s that was considered heavy traffic, all lanes full but moving at 50mph. Now it's bumper to bumper much of the day. I have no solutions for what is happening, just commenting that there are more people now than before, and that's the cause of congestion.