I would argue that nearly no one finds this one funny but many found this one funny
The OP comic is less accessible than the empiricism one, so the target audience is smaller, some of the smaller audience comics required one knew Firefly, open source memes, and Corey Doctorow. When you’re in the target group the comics are especially hilarious
Some have fallen flat for me until I looked up XKCD explained, since I have very low knowledge of pop culture. I wouldn’t say those aren’t funny, I say I don’t get them
The programmers especially on my team agree with you 200%
My team works from four locations in three states, two time zones. We work on the computer, we meet on Teams, we chat on Teams. Occasionally we phone reach other
The other IT people are happy to be in the office occasionally to catch up with others in the office, the programmers overall don’t
So they commute typically about an hour each way on days they must be in the office to work exactly as they do at home and have about as much social contact
It’s a bit rude to say “8 hours at work, 8 for recreation, 8 for sleep” when the work is actually half an hour to an hour longer with the alleged “lunch break”, and rats into the recreation time typically an hour at each end
So really it’s 8 hours at work, 3 hours work related, 5 hours recreation (nb recreation time is also spent in the “recreation” of making oneself sufficiently presentable to attend the office), and 8 hours of sleep/missing sleep worrying about whether you can afford to commute (fuel, parking, bus fares) in the few days before pay day
When meetings are scheduled while I’m on my way home (I work 07:00 to 15:00 so it happens regularly), I fill my timesheet to show that as work time. I’m happy to argue if I ever get called on it
I have participated in meetings on the bus, in my car, on my bicycle, and while at the hair dresser, all that was work time
When I remote in on the bus to/from work, that’s work hours. It’s slightly cheating on the maximum 40% WFH but I haven’t had complaints. I share network from my phone
Otherwise you would get weird situations where people could apply to distant jobs and the employer having to pay those costs and hours. Get a job with a 2 hour one-way commute and you would then only need to work 4 hours… obviously not going to work.
The obvious solution is to limit it to the historically normal commute time (30 mins to 1hr each way)
You can choose to live 4 hours away, but the organisation only pays for x hours
I think the minimum commute time available to a young family person in my town now is 45 mins, so that would be an obvious limit here
It would be better if there was a standard calculation like:
Commute time = time it would take to commute by public transport from the nearest residential area that could house a family on the income of the worker in question
That puts positive pressure on improving cost of housing, and improving speed of public transport
And were they to try to play the system by getting high speed trams linking a poor, cheap area to the CBD, that would quickly no longer be a cheap place to buy
My workplace tracks hours for salaried workers, and we’re not allowed to accrue more than about a week of excess time without taking it, to the point where of we go over, our managers must put us on leave until the balance is below the limit
People find it pretty easy to take a day here and there, especially Fridays (it’s like no one believes people do anything productive on Fridays)
xkcd #2897: Light Leap Years ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2877: Fever ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem ( fortune.com )
How about no ( reddthat.com )