Here's the two-tier problem nobody upstairs wants to touch. My warehouse crew clocks in at 6am, badges, hi-vis, the lot. The office floor above just won a "right" to skip the commute. Same company, same mission statement. Explain fairness to the guy on the forklift watching the laptops leave at 3pm.

I'll try, because I'm on the forklift side too — no one delivers a baby over Teams. But I don't want the office workers to lose their flexibility. I want the version of it my job can hold: self-rostering, compressed weeks, protected rest. Solidarity isn't everyone suffering equally. It's everyone getting the flexibility their work allows.