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1.Beyond the biggest takeaways from the #coronavirus (the need for a competent president, a government that serves the people and not the rich, etc), we should really be focusing on the fact that anyone that can work from home SHOULD work from home.
1.Beyond the biggest takeaways from the #coronavirus (the need for a competent president, a government that serves the people and not the rich, etc), we should really be focusing on the fact that anyone that can work from home SHOULD work from home.
2. Cutting the #commute out of people& #39;s lives does incredible things. First, lets just talk about the immediate impact on the environment when HUGE numbers of people are no longer driving to work. That& #39;s probably the biggest one of many positives.
3. Imagine what this would do for local economies. Take the amount of people commuting out of Concord to SF or wherever, and frequenting that desination city& #39;s stores and restaurants. Instead, plug that money into Concord& #39;s local businesses.
4. There would probably be some relative normalization of the #housing market. Instead of paying however much of an insane price for proximity to a destination city, there would be benefit to living anywhere... or not. People will still pay to live close to SF but w/less insanity
5. Commutes are wasted time and money. For anyone that has sat in #SunolGrade traffic, daily, you know what I& #39;m talking about. People are commuting from increasingly vast distances to get from affordable housing to work.
6. (commuting, continued).
Since paying people livable wages seems to be off the table for now, giving them hours of their lives back every week would sure seem like a huge bonus to me. Hour in? Hour out? That& #39;s ten hours a week if you& #39;re avoiding unplanned traffic nightmares.
Since paying people livable wages seems to be off the table for now, giving them hours of their lives back every week would sure seem like a huge bonus to me. Hour in? Hour out? That& #39;s ten hours a week if you& #39;re avoiding unplanned traffic nightmares.
7. Companies would save huge amounts of money. Paying for office space in SF must be absurd, I can only imagine. If you think not being able to directly oversee your employees would make them less productive, you& #39;re either a terrible boss or hiring the wrong people.
8. (companies, continued)
You know what makes you look like a great boss? Saving millions of dollars in office space to allow your workers to have a better quality of life. No fights over dirty fridges, thermostats, etc. Everyone has a home office with a temp & toilet they like!
You know what makes you look like a great boss? Saving millions of dollars in office space to allow your workers to have a better quality of life. No fights over dirty fridges, thermostats, etc. Everyone has a home office with a temp & toilet they like!
9. "The office center" is a hold over from a time before the internet. We have the ability to communicate visually and audibly, at any moment. Communications can be transmitted faster than walking from one end of the office to the other. We don& #39;t have to all be in the same place.
10. Some people do have to go work, it& #39;s true. It& #39;s time to pay for their commute. $7 to cross the bay bridge at commute time? $4.25/hr for metered parking? $500 a month and up for a garage spot? I bet those numbers go down drastically if fewer people are going to SF.
11. Would destination cities take a hit? Yes. But considering how absurd the cost of living is in these destination cities, we need to make life more livable for everyone else that doesn& #39;t work in tech or healthcare. & every surrounding city suddenly has business they never had.
12. In a matter of days, businesses figured out REALLY quickly how to make working from home a reality. Let& #39;s not go back to an antiquated way of life. Let& #39;s improve our society as a result of a massive social, economic, and environmental experiment playing out in real time.
13. I say "experiment" w/ all due respect and acknowledgement of the severity of what is happening right now. That doesn& #39;t mean we can& #39;t learn for the greater good. We have the ability to look at this and say "life changed, but continued in new and better ways - for everyone."
14. Some jobs require you to go to work, 100%, but if you do have to go to work, wouldn& #39;t it be great if the roads weren& #39;t slammed from 5am - 8pm? At the very least, THINK of the reduction in #traffic. Stay healthy everyone, & have faith in #Science to beat #coronavirus
