Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Workshare Credits

[Jock Coats (jock.coats]

Sharon Villines wrote:

> In our community it is accepted that all work for the community -- work that
> would normally be hired out by a condo association plus meals, facilitating
> meetings, security checks, sump pump watch, etc. -- are community chores
> including the white collar tasks like budgeting and servicing our computers
> and internet routers. One hour equals one hour.
>
> But we don't keep track of who does what and how much. 
Why not do it as Time Dollars or whatever you call it over there?  That 
way you can account for things that people do for each other as well as 
for the 'community'.  The more people realise the social (and eventually 
financial) value of even little neighbourly tasks perhaps the higher 
priority that will become in terms of their other 'work-life' balance 
issues and you can credit single mum with some time against the 
community tasks because she's picked up busy working mum's kids from 
school and looked after them for a couple of hours.

Jock

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