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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Why mention cycling?

In that case it would be "drive one hour or cycle 4"

Do you mean to suggest the company should hire folks who live closer, period? That is more logical

The operative task is minimize commute.

In most cases a car would be the fastest commute, even if you live close. (Assuming a non hyper dense urban environment)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my country, cycling is incentivized. I get paid for cycling to work.

Besides that, commute time isn't that much different by bike than by car in my case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All well and fine, but they compared apples to oranges, by moving variables

[–] 13esq 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was comparing two different, but very reasonable scenarios where two employees pay would be hugely different for a very silly reason. It's not apples and oranges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An actual comparison was simple.

"Imagine one employee lives an hour away, and one lives 20 minutes away"

[–] 13esq 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're arguing about semantics, it doesn't change the point that I was trying to make.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That or go remote if there's no productive reason why they need to be in the office and then just don't have to pay for a non-existent commute

It's actually kinda genius from the perspective of getting unneeded commuters off the road, because like hell are those middle managers willing to pay commute time just to be able to more effectively ride your shoulder at the office

[–] uis 1 points 1 year ago

In that case it would be "drive one hour or cycle 4"

For me it is:

  1. Relax and post on lemmy in PT for 47-50 minutes
  2. Drive for 45-90 minutes
  3. Cycle for about 45 minutes
[–] 13esq -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You seem to assume that I was implying that the two people in the scenario live an equal distance from the work place.

My scenario implies that the cyclist might live less than ten miles from work and that the driver lives a multiple of that away and ridicules the idea of financially rewarding someone for living further away from the workplace in terms of distance, time and carbon footprint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't assume anything I took issue with moving variables from the outset.

Differing the range of travel in a question about the duration of travel is insanity. Then layering on a change of the mode of travel too....