Australians urged to work from home and drive slower to save fuel

I swear I’ve only got the Leslie Nielsen video of EVERYTHING IS FINE while pandemonium unfolds behind him playing in my head at all times.

Well, I think Perth already has the drive slower down pat.

I wonder how this is going to be enforced. If a person with an office job who has to travel 2 hours in total every day to and from work can do their job from home but their employer says no, what are they supposed to do?

I tried and was told no. Government needs to hurry up and encourage employers to get behind it.

I was in the UK in the early 2000s when the tanker drivers blockaded the fuel ports.

The country effectively ran out of fuel.

Firstly there were massive queues at the pumps.

Then people were told to keep coming to work. And when the managers realised they also drove cars needing fuel, magically no one had to come to work.

Then cars started driving more slowly.

Then the roads were empty.

Really great time to be a tradie 🫠🫠🫠

I guess there are perks to being unemployed

As a tradie that has to drive for work in an diesel ute if everyone that was non essential stayed home it would be a real dream right about now.

Giving me those flashbacks to covid. no traffic, cheap fuel…bliss

But how will we collaborate?! Someone think of the collaboration and pizza parties.

Yep, already do 3 – 4days at home and have been for about 7 years. It’s been great, save a ton on fuel. Only drive around 10k km for both cars. We generally catch PT when going to the office. If, though they do push more people into PT, I’d think I’ll do 5 days from home. Cramming people and the expected delays would turn a 1.5 hr journey into multiple hours (like it has in the past).

WFH logically won’t cover for everyone, but a few less vehicles having to do the commute will help those that do need to.

Otherwise, there should be more incentives for EVs. Long term, that’s where it’s going and will remove our dependency on foreign oil. Just wish some of the legacy makers would bring their decent ones here (looking at you Renault).

And yet we’re also supposed to go back to the office so that commercial real estate values dont drop and cafes remain open.

Basically they want a realistic down to earth show thats off the wall swarming with magic robots.

And it begins. Orange man stupidity now hits the common folk. I wonder if people will connect CAUSE and EFFECT.

Yeah make us spend our money setting up home and then force us back to the office in x months to save the ‘city’ ie landlords

I’m a sales rep on the road all day in a company car & I am praying my employers tell us to do this…

I actually think this is one of the reasons the centralised model isn’t going to work in the long run in Australian cities.

As more average people are forced to move further away from the capitals to obtain affordable property, more people are going to want to work from home to save on the commute times.

I’m a cleaner, I do work from home, but I don’t get paid for that. For actual work, I’ve been riding my motorcycle on days I don’t have to lug around laundry. My scooter can get around 300 kms on 8 litres of fuel (Honda PCX), it’s great for jobs around town.

Cue the “hurr durr ill do *insert obvious site required work* at home” crowd. Obviously some roles arent suitable for WFH, and thats fine, this isnt about you.

Im on the tools and the drive into the city during COVID was absolute bliss during the lockdowns, why some feel the need to sook about having to go to work is beyond me.

Lucky me. My car is currently inoperable.

That is fortunate timing…

Mate we don’t have a choice, you’ve got to force employers.

Or you could make PT free for like 4 weeks as a test case and keep car costs down while still stimulating CBD/office area economies? I still can’t figure out why they don’t do this

No thanks, I’d rather not have 25 7-9 year olds running around my house. Plus my lounge room doesn’t have a decent sized whiteboard.