If we built a society that revolved around how public transport worked rather that arbitrary having to clock in at 8AM sharp, this could work. I WFH and have core hours of 10AM - 3PM. I have to do 8 hours around this as they suit my other commitments. Find a better boss, not better transport.
Some of us do real jobs
How is having a sensible approach to the working day not a "real job"?
Working "day"? lolz
Every job is a real job. You're being precious about a hypothetical.
That's a bit of a snobby wanker response tbh Not everyone can wfh, either because of their management or because, for example, wfh as a plumber isn't all that effective. Why, on God's Green Earth, would we mangle society to fit in with terribly designed & disjointed public transport?
Obviously it doesn't work for plumbers, but it really could for a fair proportion of the workforce. Why are we mangling the environment to fight everyone in rush hour to get to the same place at a given time? Flexible working could help the transport system and your mental heath. It helped mine.
Can't work for any of the service sector, the building trades, etc, etc, etc It can only work for, some, office workers I've worked remotely for 6 years, I enjoy not commuting, but I'm not dumb enough to think it's the answer, when for so many people, it would end their livelihood
This is exactly my point. How much easier would commuting be for those that really had to be physically present at a specific time if those of us who didn't where not sat in the same life sapping traffic jam every single morning and evening. Was your WFH job a real job?
Was my job a 'real job' Dunno. It pays money, but then, I've never mentioned the phrase 'real job' I guess, it helps keep taxes down, so maybe? Yours? Do you add anything useful?
Well, they pay me handsomely for doing it, so who am I to argue.
You know whether you add value or not. I'm hugely overpaid for what I do. In my opinion. Particularly in relation to people doing hard, shitty work at the front line of public service However, I typically save the organisations I work for millions of pounds, so perhaps I'm not
I'm pretty confident that my team and I are adding value since without us the infrastructure would never be built.
Infrastructure for what?
Not very much? There's a large contingent of people who wfh exclusively or at least in a hybrid arrangement - traffic still awful Your utopia ignores business hours/family life and totally blind eyes the huge mental crisis that would be caused by isolation of that sort
There is also a huge contingent of people who have to race to put children in breakfast clubs and then race through traffic to clock in at an arbitrary time to do a job they could easily do out of the office. There is no "one size fits all" here. But there could be more options if available.
Huge oversells it gigantically. Of the c420 kids who go to the school my son is at, approximately 15 are in breakfast club & we're in an area that would have higher than average utilisation Your point so nearly grasps the family life issue, but ultimately misses it
It's a single example of why it could be good as an option. I think you are missing the "option" point here. Please, feel free to continue arriving at work at an arbitrary time.
That arbitrary time, in effect, set by the school day, yes You live in a fantasy land
School start time: 8:45 Normal office start time: 8 School finish time: 3pm Normal office finish time: 5 Oh yeah, I can see how that works now.
Design better transport.
Examples please
Berlin
Last I checked, Berlin was a city, not a mode of transport & whilst the U-bahn and S-bahn are very impressive they did have the advantage of the city being flattened when planning transport Not translatable to most UK towns/cities
So what's your solution.