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[quote=Anonymous]Of course.  They don't want CRE to collapse.  It's up to workers making $65k per year to spend all of their money on fuel and public transportation costs so that the billionaires and banks don't lose their shirts in horrifically overpriced CRE.

Businesses should start comoensating employees for time spent commuting to and from the office as well as for gas or public transportation costs if they want workers in.  Why should workers have to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours per year,  uncompensated, to go do office work that could be entirely done remotely?  If businesses were forced to compensate employees for all of the time and costs for work commutes, the silver lining might be that they'll demad cheaper and faster transport - i.e. better public transportation infrastructure.  It's time employees no longer subsidize costs for businesses to get their employees into the office. Companies need to start ponying up for costs and hours spent on commutes.

This also conflicts tons with all of the so-called social equity goals of businesses trying to help the environment. What a collosal waste of fossil fuels that will have to be burnt unnecessarily just to haul people into an office to do work that can be done remotely.

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