Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by Fri31Aug on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:13AM
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In what city is 1.5h the average commute time, just to make sure I'll never go there.
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by dagw on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:19AM
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Washington DC according to https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/study-states-with-the-longes...
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by carlmr on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:48AM
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I don't sleep in the office, so my commute is 45min x 2, which as far as I know is quite average.
I'm in Stuttgart, Germany, it's a very crowded town with very narrow roads though, so there's certainly a reason for this.
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by prolikewh0a on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:05AM
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Seattle. I work with people who have 2hr commutes, both ways.
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by carlmr on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:49AM
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That would be 4h in my calculation, because I counted the time per day you can't freely allocate.
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by fernandotakai on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:56AM
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when i was working at an office, my avg commute was 1h each way (using uber). that's são paulo, brazil where 150+km of traffic jams is not unusual.
Re:Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)
by samdjstephens on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:49AM
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To add to that - 5.75h free time might seem like a decent amount (although you didn’t account for things like washing, cooking, shopping which eat up much of the remaining time) but much of that time is after work when I’m normally fried from ~12 hours working/commuting/doing chores, leaving me incapable of anything that’s even moderately mentally taxing
I always think you should look at the effective free time you have left. I can't do much in my sleep (-8h), I can't do much on my commute (-1.5h), I can't do much in my lunch break (I have to take a 45 minute lunch break by law, it's way too short to use it as actual free time, but takes another significant chunk out of your day.)
I get to 24h-8h-8h-1.5h-0.75h = 5.75h of E.F.T. that's only 24% of your day you actually have for yourself, assuming comparatively reasonable western working times and pretty average commute times.
76% of your day is not effectively free time.