The Netherlands in a long commuter traffic jam towards climate dystopia
Do you work for a company with 100+ employees? Then your boss will decide soon how you travel to work. You don’t want to take the train? You WILL take the train. Or in an EV. Or required to work from home for three days in a house that is too small and full of screaming children. Because your boss must report directly to Minister Jetten from 2025 on how his (or her, hey, it’s 2023) wage slaves get from the Senseo in their own kitchen to the DE machine in the office coffee corner, and at the end of the afternoon of the Cup -A-Soup machine in the pantry back to the AVG’tje with mothers the woman (or fathers the man, it’s 2023). We just quote in case you thought you were going to chuckle about GeenStijl, which once again grossly draws the climate transition into the dystopian:
“Employers (with 100 or more employees) must annually keep records of employee commuting and business mobility. This data must then be submitted before June 30 of the following year via an digital form. This concerns annual totals of the total number of kilometers travelled, means of transport used and fuel used. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has a guide prepared with an explanation of the annual reporting obligation.”
And if the bureaucratic creepy-phrases above haven’t quite sunk in yet, we’ll throw in this bonus quote:
“In 2026, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management will evaluate the CO2 reduction achieved in 2024 and 2025. If companies and organizations are on track, reporting will remain. If this fails, a legal standard can be set for each company from 2027. set up to enforce smarter and more economical travel.”
Well. That means looking for a job at a company with fewer than 100 colleagues, if you value your own freedom of mobility. But don’t worry, even there the state will eventually overtake you on the left, to cut you off and pull you away from behind your own steering wheel.
2023-05-25 13:05:55
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