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An hour spent commuting is 1/16th of your daily life, and that hour is by far the biggest risk to your life every day. You should be getting triple pay to ameliorate the hazard risk it represents.

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[-] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago

I have always felt that you should be paid for travel time for a job. If it takes 30 mins to drive to work then the company should be paying you that time.

Look at how many bosses/CEOs bill their daily travel expenses to the company

[-] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 3 days ago

Which CEO downvoted this?

[-] Nelots@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

I wonder if this would make it harder for people to find jobs. I imagine companies would be less inclined to hire people an hour away if they had to pay for it.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Or they might allow more work from home if it means saving on those commutes.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Also I have seen many office location decisions seem to be about the ceo's commute.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

That would be good except that you could literally get a job far away for "was" money, or you would disadvantage people living farther away from jobs (cities)

[-] EldritchFeminity 3 points 2 days ago

There are people who take Work from Home jobs in high CoL areas and then move to low CoL places to pocket the difference, so that's not too far off from what already happens.

Plus, on the other side, incentivizing companies to hire locally could cause companies to be selective in their location to maximize the convenience of commuting from multiple areas for reduced overhead, or increase the desire for increased urban density and lessen suburban sprawl, which is literally choking the life out of places in infrastructure costs alone. Garbage and water services for the wealthy suburbs is subsidized from the taxes of poor people's apartment buildings.

Of course, we all know that what would really happen is that we'd see the return of company towns where you sleep in the same bed as 2 other guys on 8 hour shifts so the bed has 100% occupancy 24 hours a day.

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