<story><title>70% of surveyed Americans say they can&apos;t do their job without internet</title><url>https://decisiondata.org/news/70-of-surveyed-americans-say-we-cant-do-our-jobs-without-a-home-internet-connection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>People like that could get by with dial up if people like the ones reading this comment would stop loading 80MB of JS just so they can save a couple lines of code.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The dailup part was an exaggeration but if your web app doesn&amp;#x27;t suck 3g and two bars or a 1Mb down DSL pipe should be fine for most CRUD type business tasks that.  There&amp;#x27;s no reason that signing in and signing up for a shift should take more bandwidth than Craigslist.</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>You can work as a factory worker and still require internet access for scheduling days off, getting payroll information, etc.  In fact, it&amp;#x27;s likely that people not working desk jobs are those most in need of home internet access, as they might not be provided such at work.</text></item><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t really make sense to me. Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can&amp;#x27;t work from home? Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America? I dont buy that.&lt;p&gt;Smells like selection bias to me... are they interviewing people already at home because their work allows it?&lt;p&gt;They do mention -&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; There are certainly some folks who work in healthcare, grocery stores, auto shops, etc., where you wouldn&amp;#x27;t think a strong home internet connection was a requirement.&lt;p&gt;But I still remain skeptical that so many claim they require home internet. At the very least work email can be done on a phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;... if your web app doesn&amp;#x27;t suck...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The employee has absolutely no control over that and sure, you could pass regulations - but those regulations are going to be fairly difficult to enforce.&lt;p&gt;But you know, we could just start trying to make sure everyone has decent internet. Work isn&amp;#x27;t the only benefits to this.</text></comment>
<story><title>70% of surveyed Americans say they can&apos;t do their job without internet</title><url>https://decisiondata.org/news/70-of-surveyed-americans-say-we-cant-do-our-jobs-without-a-home-internet-connection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>People like that could get by with dial up if people like the ones reading this comment would stop loading 80MB of JS just so they can save a couple lines of code.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The dailup part was an exaggeration but if your web app doesn&amp;#x27;t suck 3g and two bars or a 1Mb down DSL pipe should be fine for most CRUD type business tasks that.  There&amp;#x27;s no reason that signing in and signing up for a shift should take more bandwidth than Craigslist.</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>You can work as a factory worker and still require internet access for scheduling days off, getting payroll information, etc.  In fact, it&amp;#x27;s likely that people not working desk jobs are those most in need of home internet access, as they might not be provided such at work.</text></item><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t really make sense to me. Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can&amp;#x27;t work from home? Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America? I dont buy that.&lt;p&gt;Smells like selection bias to me... are they interviewing people already at home because their work allows it?&lt;p&gt;They do mention -&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; There are certainly some folks who work in healthcare, grocery stores, auto shops, etc., where you wouldn&amp;#x27;t think a strong home internet connection was a requirement.&lt;p&gt;But I still remain skeptical that so many claim they require home internet. At the very least work email can be done on a phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>They could even get by without the Internet if such business were all conducted on the phone.  So what?</text></comment>