WFH Commute Savings

I have a very short commute, 5 min walk from door to work. So that's 10 minutes a day.With 260 workdays a year, for me that's 2600 minutes - or 43.3 hours, just over 5 workdays, spent to and from work.One of my colleagues has a 1 hour commute, so for him that's whooping 520 hours / 65 workdays spent on commuting!But anyway, the commute isn't the only factor for me: During my 30 min lunch, I spend maybe 10 minutes eating, and the rest 20 mins is spent on shooting

I work from home four days a week and commute one day - usually around 2 hours round trip.I get paid less at this job than I would if I was willing to commute to the city where my office is located. But I consider the mental and emotional benefit of not having that daily grind to be worth more than the wage gap.I greatly prefer to slow pace of country life after a day working, whether at home or in the office. The technology industry is stressful enough without the added stress of city dwe

The company is still paying you the same although you are no longer commuting though. Before you wasted between 1/2 hour and 2 hours every day just moving back and forth from the office (formally unpaid time). Now you can get out of your bed ten minutes before the first meeting in the day or be grocery shopping in your neighborhood five minutes after your work day ended.

I'm a remote worker who likes a good (emphasis good) office environment better than working at home. But I prefer WFH nonetheless—because I don't like the office enough to pay five stressful hours of my waking time for it per week (for the commute).That's nearly five percent of my waking hours per week (does hit 5%, if traffic's unusually bad one or two of those days), including weekends. It's more than 6% of my waking hours on a weekday. That's a pretty s

The commute is the big thing. My preference for WFH has far less to do with the office than it does with the commute. Even living physically close to my job, the commute could be bumper to bumper and just aggravating.

Since late 2004 I have been lucky enough to have either worked from home or at an office no farther than a block or two away from my house.I can't stress enough how much time you will reclaim by not having to commute and the money is only the half of it. I have a relative who travels nearly an hour and a half each way to work. That works out to something like 30 calendar days EVERY YEAR.No work-situation is worth losing a month a year to. We don't live very long - wouldn't you rather spe

It's certainly more efficient for me that I don't have to commute 2 hours per day on my own dime to spend the day in some open plan office with inferior equipment to what I have at home...

Great to see people trying things like this!But... Ctrl-F "commute"? Nope, don't see anything. Are you either remote or living very close to the office? Having more than a few minutes of commute does potentially change the trade-offs.

What if I told you I put in more hours of actual work from home because it's not spent commuting or recovering from a stressful commute?

Work for home by far. It saves me 1 hour and a half of commute everyday, and allows me to have a semblance of work life balance.