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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
Maybe I'm just getting bitter and jaded with age, but it seems like any societal shift that improves quality of life for the lower and middle classes at the expense of wealthy business owners is becoming more and more difficult to implement on a large scale. That's capitalism for you, I guess.
Less commute time means less profit for the auto and O&G sectors, probably fewer people going out after work for dinner a beer, etc etc. The people who makes the rules lose out, so it's not likely to happen, even if the facts demonstrate it would benefit everyone else.
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There are many benefits to corporates also. Less people in the office means not spending on the office building. Less necessity to have your workers in major urban centers with high costs of living means offering lower salaries to match the lower costs of living where they reside. More blurring of the lines between work and non-work time may well mean work taking over more personal time. Adapting management to a distributed and remote workforce means being more capable of managing overseas workers and outsourcing.