Jerusalem, October 20 - Israel’s policy of requiring most employers to give workers the day off to vote has sparked appreciation from at least one Vehicle Licensing Authority form processor, who has long wondered why she should bother coming in to work at all, when she can accomplish her useless daily tasks without leaving her apartment.

Zohara Shem-Tov, 40, shared with coworkers today that she looks forward to Election Day next week, because, aside from perhaps actually visiting a polling site to cast a ballot, she will take advantage of the vacation to sip coffee, chat online, scroll through Instagram, and spend unreasonable amounts of time trying to take the perfect selfie in the bathroom mirror - but this time from home instead of at the office, where her routine normally places those activities.

“Also, at home, people don’t wait around for their number to be called and then bug me when it’s their turn,” she observed. “Hello, I don’t care how long you’ve been waiting in those uncomfortable seats. That’s not my job. My job is to get you to go away by finding some document you didn’t bring with you, sorry, take care of that and make another appointment three months hence. I’ve got my lunch to photograph for my social media. Your ‘registration application’ is just getting in my way.”

Shem-Tov noted that her productivity metrics have remained consistent for years regardless of location, largely because the core of her role involves carefully examining each application for the single most minor missing detail before returning it. “At the office I have to pretend to look at the computer while I do this. At home I can achieve the same result without any forms.”

A colleague who asked not to be named confirmed that the office has long operated on an understanding that most form rejections can take place just as effectively from a couch. “The system doesn’t really track how much work you do. Election Day is basically the same as a regular Tuesday, except fewer people are there to watch you not do anything.”

When asked whether she planned to vote, Shem-Tov said she might, if the line at her local polling station looks shorter than the one she usually maintains in the waiting room at work. “I’m not against voting. I just don’t see why it has to interrupt the rest of the schedule. They already gave us the day off. That should be enough.”

Supervisors at the Vehicle Licensing Authority declined to comment on whether Shem-Tov’s approach to public service had ever been formally reviewed, though one internal email obtained by this reporter described her annual evaluation as “meeting expectations in all categories related to document deflection and personal time management.”

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