And many people in ads are certainly not working that schedule, and discourage those around them from doing so since it slows everything down long term.
This is assuming a lot. What about low income people that don't have smartphones?
I seriously doubt anyone would love time changes like this. If you want to make a schedule 6 months in advance, everything is shifted by a couple of hours.
There are massive downsides to having everyone on the same schedule, too. Most infrastructure has to be a lot bigger to accommodate the peak loads. Roads are plagued by "rush hour," call centers have "longer than expected hold times," and coffee shops have to decide whether to ask staff to work short shifts or pay them for periods when they are not needed very much. These things reduce productivity and even kill people.
I have a few suspicions that it's intentionally done this way for balancing demand spikes and that jobs scheduled for the top of hour are worst affected.
It's more like everyone applies some sort of implicit linear transformation to the scheduled times, so that everyone is late by approximately the same amount.
This reminds me of the idea that we could cut traffic if we staggered office hours. In theory it would work but in reality businesses don’t operate that way.
I feel fairly confident that the end result of this would just be that everyone changes their schedules together. Too many industries are linked.
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