{"id":1866,"date":"2012-08-21T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-08-21T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T16:19:25","slug":"the-waste-of-commuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/the-waste-of-commuting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waste of Commuting"},"content":{"rendered":"

On average US workers lose 189 hours a year commuting.\u00a0 If you have a business of 500 employees commuting, it comes out to 94,500 hours of time wasted sitting in a car. That is a lot of potentially productive time thrown away while driving to and from our places of work.\u00a0 Surely lots of work could be done in the amount of time usually spent driving, or perhaps it could even just be a little extra time with the family, but it would be good for the employee either way.<\/p>\n

Commuting has been something most people have been willing to accept as \u201cpart of the job,\u201d especially in larger cities.\u00a0 According to a study<\/a> by Census.gov in 2009, the New York\/New Jersey\/Long Island area has the longest commute time for workers, with DC in second and Chicago, Atlanta, Riverside, and Stockton also making the top ten list.\u00a0 Some of these areas have tried to cut down on their environmental impact by offering effective public transportation.\u00a0 Long Island\/New York may have the longest commute time, but they also have over 30% of their commuters going to work by public transportation, which cuts down on emissions and traffic.\u00a0 San Francisco came in second with about 15% of their workers using public transportation and DC in third.<\/p>\n

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So why do we keep doing it?\u00a0 There have certainly been enough upgrades in tech to allow working from home in the past decade.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at some of the upgrades that allow working from home to be possible.<\/p>\n