Click bait title.<p><pre><code> Changes in behavior differ among age groups, with younger Americans using the saved commuting time to engage in leisure activities
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They consider commute time as working. Which on some level I would like to agree with but none of my employers so far has paid me to commute so I do not consider it working.<p>Yes of course I don't use the commute time I save to get more work hours in. Duh!
Articles like these are simply crap. Commuting less != working less. If commuting is work then employers should pay for it or have the time taken to commute deducted from work hours.<p>Either way articles like these are horseshit and likely sponsored by those renting human farm space (offices).
You've really got to follow the money on this whole "let's all get back into the office" nonsense. Commercial real estate is extremely overpriced and a market correction might affect some people (including the FED's lobbyists). Not to mention higher commercial real estate prices contribute to inflated housing prices near urban centers.<p>Honestly, I'm tired of it. Let's move on a society, let people who want to work from home do it, and downsize / revamp offices for the people who do. Saving on the commute alone is worth it.
Work less doesn't mean less productive. This article has practically no substance and has nothing to say. It's as if this was written by a bot.
Less time wasted commuting. More time sleeping. More leisure time.<p>I still spend the same real number of hours working (if not longer when I'm in the zone) and have a higher quality of life.<p>That all sounds good to me, so what's the problem?
I slacked off more in the office, got up from my desk more, walked around more. When I was actually at my desk, I would browse random websites more than I do at home.<p>There are too many distractions in the office and not enough private offices to work in, for the people who require deep concentration to work. I don't see that changing anytime soon because a private office (with a door) is seen as a perk/privilege for managers who are mostly stuck in meetings anyway, and not for those who need to be able to concentrate.
garbage article filled with propaganda from FED who are lobbied by Commercial Real Estate investors.<p>CREs are losing their ass over companies canceling/downsizing their office presence - all thanks to remote work.<p>If you ask who this article benefits, then it becomes clear their motivation for study. There is a reason Fed decided suddenly to launch this study of remote workers and came to this conclusion, completely ignoring employee wellbeing & work output (which are the main things employers should care about)
Just say "No" to these work-a-holic junkies. Don't open the article, don't read the article, don't engage it any further than "Nice try Mr. Capitalist"<p>Anyone writing these articles is a Fed. All of these article are just trying to guilt trip and shame people into working more.
It's interesting that we're at a point in society (or maybe capitalism) where people working less and sleeping more is being played as a bad thing.