The Fight Against Commuting
No commute is best, of course, but how much of your life are you willing to give up for nothing in return?
Commuting. It’s a thing that’s long been put up with in many industries — not just the Grand Game of Software Engineering — and it’s only fairly recently that us working hoards have woken up and smelled the overpriced city centre coffee and realised it for the scam it truly is.
For decades, centuries even, workers have put up with the dire unpaid overtime mandatorily donated to employers in order that they can get to work, do a paid job, and get home again in the evening.
Unfortunately, and gradually over time, the length of commuting has increased for the average worker and, indeed, so have the costs.
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As most offices reside in city centre locations workers must put up with the usual overcrowded, overpriced, and often haphazard methods of public transport that are available as well as several hours, per day, of sucking it up being squeezed, breathed on, and deafened by the process.
Offices outside of urban centres have similar problems where workers either have to rely on irregular bus services, if they exist at all¹, or take on the additional cost of owning, maintaining, and fuelling their own transport such as cars or…
