Diritto al lavoro flessibile necessario per risolvere spostamenti di tre ore sulle “autostrade parcheggio”
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2025/11/20/right-to-flexible-working-needed-to-resolve-three-hour-commutes-on-car-park-motorways/
di ImpressiveCoat
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What’s going to win here I wonder, direct action to make peoples commutes more bearable or ignore the problem in the interest of office real estate investors
We NEED PROPER RAIL
Well let’s hope they actually do something. With more and more people being pushed to live further afield because of house prices, whilst all the jobs remain in Dublin, it’s only going to continue to get substantially worse over the next 10 years.
Make it an election issue
In an ideal world there would be a staggering of start and finish times. Unfortunately, we’ve set up our society on the basis of 9-5, Monday to Friday.
Compounding the issue is the previously mentioned “hybrid” working model “TWAT” (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays) in the office.
Imagine, hoping the government will do something constructive for the people of this country. They are known for that after all.
The real answer is actually just make a decent rail network, almost every major city and commuter belt in the world has this figured out but for some reason we love the US so much we copy their ways of doing things and so households with like 4 cars are not outside the norm here…
This is the lowest hanging political fruit since marriage equality and abortion referendums and the gov still choose to service corporate and landowner interests over the masses. Boggles the mind,
Lower carbon emissions, ease rent and house prices, less travel expenses, decentralise and stimulate local economies
Oh and simply that it’s the obvious thing to do for the people you serve to have a better balance in life
How credible is this?
My boss requires onsite through the worst commute times in Galway traffic. Ultimately the business needs and “policy” will win out.
We’re basically at and beyond the upper limits of Irish transport and housing infrastructure – ultimately either we solve the infrastructure deficit or people and investment will move away. That’s the reality of it and the one we are not tackling fast enough. It’s a competitive world.
We aren’t tackling these issues fast enough or with any sense that it’s any kind of urgency.
Do I have this right:
Pandemic forces WFH on many Irish employees.
Many of these workers move farther from where they work as it’s more affordable and they have WFH or flex and can handle a long commute a few days a week.
The pandemic is over, or not as risky as it was.
Employers realise they’re paying big bucks for half-empty offices. They also have a 20th century mindset that workers need to be supervised and to work regular office hours to be effective.
Employers start calling back staff full time.
Employees are faced with long commutes in worsening traffic and atrocious public transport.
Have I missed anything?
It’s gotten so much worse recently. My commute went from 50 minutes to close to 2 hours some days
They could do what they did before COVID .
Denis O’Brien, billionaire defamer of solicitors and telecoms licence “obtainer”, claims working from home is a big lark and should be stopped. Funnily enough he works remotely himself, from Malta.
Easily fixed, if a job can be done remotely, but for whatever reason employees are ordered to return to the office, make the employer pay;
– A congestion charge every day for every employee forced to commute
– A childcare allowance to the affected employees
– Pollution/Emissions tax annually based on amount of unnecessary travel required by employees.
There is absolutely no reason to have employees who worked just fine remotely from 2020 to now, return to the office. It puts unnecessary strain on our infrastructure and its abusive toward the employees themselves. If you absolutely MUST have them in office that’s fine, pay for it.
If companies are going to force people to return to work, they should be required to start paying people for the hours they travel to work.
Some people are having 2-4 hours added onto their work day. Dublin traffic has been found to be amongst the worst in the world, even more so than some massive Asian cities.
Everyone needs to email their local county councillor and enquire as to what their plan is to fix traffic in their cities and towns.
By all accounts Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway are at a standstill most evenings traffic wise.
No election for 4 years, so we’ll hear more about a vague plan then. They see no need to give us anything before then.