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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Our parking garage is a (long) block away, and there is no shuttle, we walk. There are railroad tracks in between so one may get stuck for 5-10 minutes waiting to cross the tracks. No one here cares if someone is 5-10 minutes late, and most wouldn't notice with our flexible start times. My people start anywhere from 7AM-10AM. I generally go by the cubes and greet them 5-10 minutes after they are due in.
I see more and more workplaces that have you take a shuttle from their parking lot to your office.
To me, that's additional time added to your commute.
Suppose the shuttle runs on a 10 minute interval and takes 5 minutes to drop you off at your office. That's potentially an additional 30 minutes added to your daily commute.
Personally, in this case, I'd just take rideshare to work everyday and go on my laptop while being driven. Yes, my wallet will take a hit but the additional step of taking a shuttle to and from the office is my tipping point.
Well, since it appears you don't actually want any feedback but rather just want people to agree with you:
I have a great idea! Instead of driving and parking and then waiting for shuttle, how about taking a Lyft or Uber everyday and having them drop you off at the front door? Maybe it'll be worth it to you to save the time and hassle. Give it a try, why don'tcha?
I've never run into an employer having a separate lot requiring me to take a shuttle. Of one did, it would imply they are located in a congested area where parking is a premium.
In that case, I would just consider the entire commute as one and then factor that in with other things in determining if I wanted to work at this company. Some people will be ok with it, and some people won't.
We used to have to do this when I worked in an Atlantic City casino 30 years ago. The casino parking garages weren’t big enough for employees and guests, so the majority of casinos have their employees park in a lot they built on the Atlantic City Expressway about 3 miles outside of town. Then buses picked you up from there and took us the rest of the way. There were many times I’d be driving the last 5 miles on the expressway going 80 or 85 because I knew I was going to get to the lot within a minute of the bus coming LOL. Sometimes when you zoomed into the lot they’d wait for you to park and run back to the bus sometimes they didn’t though.
Unless you live in/near the city, it's likely you'll still need to drive to the subway station, etc. So I'm not sure what the question is asking. Not everyone has public transportation that can take them door to door.
If you work on a large campus it's not 100% guaranteed that public transportation will take you to the door of your building. So you may still need to take said shuttle.
In the end, I don't think people chose the harder/more expensive reason to commute to work if they don't have to.
Unless you live in/near the city, it's likely you'll still need to drive to the subway station, etc. So I'm not sure what the question is asking. Not everyone has public transportation that can take them door to door.
If you work on a large campus it's not 100% guaranteed that public transportation will take you to the door of your building. So you may still need to take said shuttle.
In the end, I don't think people chose the harder/more expensive reason to commute to work if they don't have to.
Right. In my case I had the option of train or bus, but the bus was always freezing cold and it was almost an hour, 15+ minutes more than driving so even with the shuttle driving was faster. The train was nice, but I had to choose between getting to work half an hour early or 15 minutes late.
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