Hello. The easiest, fastest, cheapest and most efficient way to help traffic congestion is to allow/encourage every single worker who can do his/her job from home, or from neighborhood telecommuting facilities, to do so.
We have the technology. How many workers are sitting in a cubicle and communicating with their office mates in other cubicles by EMAIL anyway?
I sat in an office and emailed my boss back and forth in her office NEXT DOOR. Then when I finished my work product, I emailed it to her for review and she emailed it back with her remarks. Etc. etc. etc. So I had to sit in a cubicle next to her WHY? That story times every employee in the organization.
You are so right. Most people are so old fashioned in their way of thinking, especially management at allot of businesses. In many many cases having to physically be somewhere to work is a thing of the past. There isn't anywhere near enough attention given to telecommuting/conferencing.
Traveling to a job is so 1990s lol.