[filereaper]

Rather than going down the barbaric tone. When it comes to 9-5 jobs, I keep going back to city infrastructures.

Where I live in Toronto, all the highways and subways get clogged as everyone needs to make it to the office for 9-5. Everyone then complains about poor infrastructure, but then all cities keep building for a short burst peak traffic. Infrastructure is overbuilt for other times.

I can understand a lot of it is due to having kids (schools let out around 4pm) so everyone tries to streamline dropping kids off and picking them up from work.

I really wish everyone can try for a staggered approach to deal with congestion. I don't have a hard sync like picking up kids or anything like that yet so I avoid the normal envelopes around 9-5.

Many initiatives like Smart Cities are being rolled out but yea... I'm not a huge fan of the common 9-5 pattern.

[test1235]

Another complaint I have about 9-5 is I can't find time to do certain things because everyone all works the same hours. Certain services such as doctors appointments are only available while I'm working, or if I need contractor services at home, again, only available while I'm working. Luckily I work in a city centre so I can do some things in my lunch hour, but if you happened to work out of town (e.g. business park), or if the thing you need to do takes longer than an hour you're shit out of luck.

[jhoechtl]

In former times it was perceived to be ok to see your doctor during the 'regular' office hours. Go figure

[majewsky]

It isn't? I do that regularly here in Germany (although of course I coordinate my appointments to not conflict with important meetings etc.).