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Its also interesting to see the cultural turmoil people are willing to put up with just to avoid the implied worse alternative of flexible working hours or working from home occasionally.

A quick "easy" but apparently utterly culturally unacceptable way to increase capacity by some 240% would be to work from home one day per week on average (or a half day every other week, or two days every other person, etc) and flex working hours such that the "rush hour" is twice as long.

This would interfere with primate dominance rituals such as enjoying lower social class suffering, so instead we'll get something that merely redistributes suffering.




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