Of course not everyone wants to work from home. Not everyone wants parental leave either or a good school district to live in, since they have no kids and it would be irrelevant to them. Doesn't mean that things like parental leave or schooling or working from home aren't huge massive factors that a lot of people think about when it comes to choosing where to live your life and how it should look like. Like I said, the cat is out of the bag.
For me, its like the earth has went from a 24 hour day to a 26 hour day, what an invention in human efficiency these two hours have been! When is the last time we gained two hours of free time as a civilization, when we went from animal to mechanical power for transportation?
> When is the last time we gained two hours of free time
I'm searching for a job now, and one of the things I'm starting to see - and place value in - are 4 day work weeks. I'm willing to take the pay cut, I don't care what day a week is the free day (but friday is the best IMO).
My mother was a very successful engineer in the 90s but went to a 32hr work week to raise me (matched school hours). During the summers she would work 8x4 instead of 6x5 and take Fridays off. She said it hurt her career for the first few years, and she had to work extra hard to re-prove herself but once she established herself, she much preferred the reduced schedule, and continued it even after I moved out.
> Not everyone wants parental leave either or a good school district to live in, since they have no kids and it would be irrelevant to them.
Do very many people think that the quality of education in their area is irrelevant to them? You shouldn't need children to see the benefits of living in a community of well educated people.
For me, its like the earth has went from a 24 hour day to a 26 hour day, what an invention in human efficiency these two hours have been! When is the last time we gained two hours of free time as a civilization, when we went from animal to mechanical power for transportation?