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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[+] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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    This fails to take into account unemployment rates or any other factors that apply pressure to such decision-making. We need legislation that enshrines payment for commute time universally, as it would encourage WFH mandates rather than RTO ones. As well as compensate other workers for their commute. Or perhaps a flat rate of one hour each way's pay no matter the distance, to stop certain workers finding it harder to get a job.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The rich and poor alike are prohibited from sleeping under bridges. Just choose a better job! Easy! Why didn't everyone else think of that?

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    It's because you opened with "Accepting an onsite job [...] places the responsibility on you to be able to commute there", as if people are choosing this when there are other options. This "responsibility" is foisted onto people by management that demands it, and a society that demands most people labor or die. Saying "you accepted this under duress, now accept the consequences" is crap.

    The rest of your point about reliable transportation and fair wages is fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    My employer gives everyone an annual public transport ticket for commuting.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Taking into account expenses, and no need to financially budget for travel and stress about it, this is a fairly low cost way to satisfy your employees. Is the work not possibly WFH or employer would rather have people in office?

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