The costs
Who pays, and who says so
Five claims about cost, four of them never spoken aloud, and between them they decided the outcome.
Claims this part is about, and what each was answered with
The travel time and fares fall entirely on the employee
Interest·Nothing; it was never said out loudChildcare was arranged around the pattern now being changed
Interest·Nothing; it was never said out loudTwo people moved house on the basis of the previous arrangement
Interest·Nothing; it was never said out loudThe journeys of the people setting the rule are the shortest on the team
Interest·Nothing; it was never said out loudThe lease runs to 2031 and the rent review falls next year
Interest→A statement about who paysSaid once, in a finance update
five claims · five interest · none of the answered ones was answered in the wrong kind · four were never answered at all
All five claims about who pays, from the twenty-four.
The five costs
Everything in this argument that is actually a cost, who bears each one, and the one that was mentioned.
The four that were never said
Everyone knew all four. Nobody mentioned any of them in eleven weeks. Four different reasons for the same silence.
The ledger with one side
Why an organisation's costs are written down and an individual's are not, and what that does to a decision taken on the basis of what is written down.
The lease and the culture argument
Two true things standing next to each other, and why the presence of the first makes the second impossible to state.
Naming a cost without accusing anyone
The sentence that puts a figure in the room and does not land as a complaint. Four components, and the one that most people leave out.
The cost that is not money
Fares are the smallest part of it. Four costs that do not convert into a figure, and why leaving them out understates the case.
Whose journey is shortest
The people who set the rule had the shortest journeys on the team. That is not a motive. It is a vantage point, and vantage points are correctable.
The cheapest claims to settle
No measurement to design, no values to reconcile. Just somebody saying a true thing. So why were four of five never said?