Originally posted by FortyJ
Perhaps, in a future release of Civ4 or 5 in which multiple players can play at the same time for the same team, I can see the benefit of distributing workers amongst the provinces for control by the respective governors.
However, as there can be only one DP, the notion of allowing governors to "release" their workers to the DP for special projects and critical needs as they arise within the game seems borderline impossible.
Please keep in mind that the biggest threat to the success of the DG is stagnation. Case in point, this current term. The forum has descended into near anarchy, and I'm fairly certain it is because we have gone 17 days and only progressed 12 turns.
If we were to adopt such a system and the DP could not order workers to perform tasks without prior approval from the governors, the chance of completing 5 turns in a single chat, let alone 10, becomes quite difficult.
I must also agree with Shaitan that workers moving from one work site to another is indeed inefficient. They should work their way to the new site, performing needed tasks (even if they are not as critical) along the way. Of course, there are exceptions, and because of these and for many other reasons, the flexibility of worker priorities must remain solely with the DP.