October 30, 2007
In case it had escaped your attention among the Halloween hype and fireworks, it is currently National Commute Smart Week.
Guru got up early yesterday to put on his top hat and tails before driving to work, but apparently he had the wrong end of the stick.
It turns out that the event, run by not-for-profit initiative Work Wise UK, is all about thinking of different ways to do your job without clogging up the roads and trains.
Guru reckons that if more people took jobs as train drivers and road builders, it wouldn’t matter what hours they worked, but again he was apparently barking up the wrong tree.
Flexible hours and home working are great ideas but the problem for HR is that they tend to go hand in hand. That is to say that employees working from home often find themselves working the most flexibly – short spells of work broken up by long stints of the Jeremy Kyle Show and cleaning out the garage.
Don’t get Guru wrong, though, he understands the benefits of reducing the UK’s carbon footprint, easing congestion on the transport system and giving employees a better work/like balance. That is why he is getting into the spirit of National Commute Smart Week in his own way.
Tomorrow he will be staying in bed all day while Mrs Guru writes this blog from her usual workplace. If that is not smart thinking, then what is?
Comments (1)
Dear Guru
Surely this topic deserves more serious consideration. I think people are a little more self-disciplined than you give them credit for, and anyway, if the time they spend working is more productive than if they worked in the office, who cares if they take a break every so often? At least they wouldn't have ahd to go into the office!
Posted by Sarah Deverson | November 1, 2007 4:10 PM
Posted on November 1, 2007 16:10