Today is Drive Nowhere Day. So skip that bothersome drive to work by telecommuting! Or you could always walk/bike/take the bus/subway.

The best commute is none at all.  With inflation increasing, workers may also want to trade hours for pay increases.   Get the same salary but for 30 hours work (minimum for keeping benefits).

You know, all all the "health care" reforms that the candidates are touting, probably the most useful would in fact be to allow people to get full time benefits even if they work less than 30 hours.  So, someone could take a minimum hours, but high wage job for 10 hours a week and still get health, 401k etc.

We really need to make our workstyle fit in with the idea that almost all of us are becoming a form of knowledge worker...even a Wal*Mart employee may find ways to doing a job more efficiently and he should be allowed to work less and keep his current salary with time off as a bonus...