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I would be real happy if employers would focus more on adding reserved parking with chargers instead of reserve parking for mid level management. It would send a much better message.

It might take something akin to handicap parking to convince people to think different. I would use the carrot method, get better parking with your plug in (hybrid or otherwise) instead of taxing the other to death.

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Huh. In Silicon Valley it is already more common to have EV chargers with dedicated parking than it is to have dedicated management spaces.

There are companies that reserve parking for mid-level managers?!?

I agree: that sends a terrible message.

Yup. One of my wife's previous employers did this. The first row of spaces were reserved for long-time employees, which really just meant the VPs who had been there a while. The CEO's admin might have had one of those as well. The rank and file had very little change of ever obtaining a reserved spot.

Where mid-level = VP+, it used to be quite common. Among companies I go to these days, it would be rare enough as to be noteworthy--not that I visit a representative cross-section of all companies.

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