More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and bike to office jobs

Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by buckbova on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:20PM (#14108357)

I doubt they have the hills I have to contend with. I don't want to show up to work drenched in sweat.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by jdminhbg on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:04PM (#14108812)

For random comparison...

Copenhagen: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/

Pittsburgh, PA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/

San Francisco, CA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ (note that the entire scale of the Copenhagen map fits in the bottom 1/6 of the SF map)

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by mikro2nd on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:31PM (#14109669)

Hmmm... I get that, but... A place I worked at provided showers, mainly at the instigation of people who biked to work. Thirty years ago.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by buckbova on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:45PM (#14109792)

There are showers. It's just not for me.

Now I'm dragging a set of clothes/shoes, soap, towel/rag, hair brush, razor, shaving cream, etc to work? Probably should wear sandals in the shower unless I want foot fungus. Then what do I do with my wet towel and stank clothes? Stuff them in a bag where they stink worse? Hang them in my cube?

Then I head home and have to put on my stank clothes and get all sweated up again. Time for another shower I guess.

And that's not mentioning the time in transit, probably an hour a day round trip by bike. This is why I live close to my work. I can drive there with all the street lights and park, portal to portal in 10 minutes.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by tjr225 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:29PM (#14110195)

I bike about 18-20 miles round trip every day and I spend between an hour and an hour and ten minutes on the bike (total, not one way). I bring a change of clothes, lunch, and macbook in a waterproof backpack. Shower once in the morning when I get to work. I get my exercise and my commute done at the same time and I don't have to pay for/maintain/fuel/insure a car. On the off days that I don't feel like cycling or the weather is insane my wife drops me off or I get an uber.

This is my opinion and it may ruffle some feathers but if it takes you 10 minutes to go from door to door in a car and you don't have a disability, you shouldn't be driving to work. At least not every day.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by cr0sh on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:32PM (#14110224)

Or how about heat? Ok, maybe I'm biased here...

/I call Phoenix, AZ home...sigh

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by bryanlarsen on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:58PM (#14108759)

Aarhus has hills and a 48% bike share.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by buckbova on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#14108928)

Looks like not much over a couple hundred feet and Copenhagen is flat as a pancake.

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Re:More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:31AM (#14112989)

An e-bike solves that problem.

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