On: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight sa...

[spiderfarmer]

Lets also try and spread working times from (mostly) 9-5 to 6-2, 7-3, 8-4, 9-5 and 10-6 so we can solve the traffic congestion problem, all while enabling people to work when they work best.

[KajMagnus → spiderfarmer]

And 30 h work weeks, could instead of 5 days x 6 hours, be 4 days x 7.5 hours, so that people didn't need to commute at all, one day per week.

[athenot → spiderfarmer]

I would love this. But it seems what pegs everyone to the same schedule is uniform school hours for K-12.

[andai → athenot]

There's a lot of research lately indicating that the current school hours are harmful and should be adjusted.

[kuroguro → spiderfarmer]

Don't forget spread the free weekend days randomly between companies.

[szatkus → kuroguro]

We already tried this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

[wazoox → spiderfarmer]

You forgot my favourite time slots, 11-7, 12-8 and 1-9 :)

[anticensor → wazoox]

Afternoon or night?

[wazoox → anticensor]

Afternoon.

[otaviokz → spiderfarmer]

Couldn't agree more. I see it already happening on some companies that allow employees to arrive anytime between 7am and 11am and leave once they do their daily hours. In my job I'd say somewhere between 10 and 20% of the people arrive before 8am or after 10am. I suppose it could be even better if there was an actual policy of organising it so as to improve spreading as much as possible.

[CalRobert → spiderfarmer]

Or just improve cycling and public transport infrastructure, and let more people wfh