Management's offer that no-one will be displaced more than 30 minutes travelling time from your current location sounds quite good, doesn't it?
Don't celebrate yet, though: not until you've sat down with a map and worked out how far that can take you. For most central London stations, 30 minutes takes you so far out of the centre that more than half of the total number of stations are in scope!
And remember: 30 minutes on the timetable will often take more than 30 minutes in practice, for example if it introduces an extra change into your journey to work - let alone if there are service delays. And 30 minutes on a train means many more than 30 minutes in a staff taxi.
Even if it were no more than 30 minutes, that's still five hours per week - of our time, not theirs. No thanks.
We should definitely look this particular gift horse in the mouth.
