Cape Town to try flexi-time, working from home to reduce traffic jams

City of Cape Town to try flexi-time, working from home to reduce traffic jams The City of Cape Town will introduce flexi-hours and an option for working from home for some employees to help reduce the city’s infamous rush-hour gridlock. The city also wants bosses in private companies to consider doing the same. Something had to give, said Brett Herron, the city’s mayoral committee member for transport, noting that residents spent up to three hours a day in peak-hour traffic because of the traditional 08:00 to 17:00 working hours. In the next few months the city will experiment with letting some of its employees work flexi-hours, work from satellite offices closer to home or even work from home, with certain conditions, Herron said. See http://ift.tt/2mtRfCl