We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)

Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by monkeynotes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:41AM (#23976909)

Factor in commuting. When I commuted to London I spent 4 hours in transit. Get up at 7am, at my desk at 9am. Leave work at 5:30p and get home at 7:30pm. Many people do this. Their whole week is spent working, eating, and sleeping for two exhausted days off at the weekend and a barrage of unattended tasks, chores, neglected relationships deferred during work hours.

Edit: I am not sure how you got to 1/5th. By my calculation of the waking hours in a week 37.5hrs is ~1/3rd of 112hrs.

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by murph-almighty on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#23986848)

Highkey why I decided to move out of my parent's place after almost 2 years of a similar 4-hour commute day. I had no life, no friends, and it actually drove my relationship at the time into the shitter.

Doesn't help that rent in my metro area ain't cheap but I was able to score a relatively cheap apartment that makes my commute 35-40 mins each way. I suppose since I work remote I'm not getting my money's worth but this is still a better way for me to live.

My dad did this commute for around 11 years, got laid off, got a job a half hour drive away and his QoL is drastically improved. If housing were more accessible where jobs were (or if public infrastructure was improved to drastically increase throughput/efficiency) we would probably be much happier- we'd probably be even happier if we just bit the bullet and went as remote as possible or chose 4 day workweeks, and to be quite honest it's probably easier at a macro level to force that kind of change than to figure out a way to fit more sardines into electric cars in tubes.

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by jonsen on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:08PM (#23977205)

Many people do this.

Yes but average is lower. First Google hit:

Value for the US (Minutes): 26.6:

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/a...

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by monkeynotes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:15PM (#23977282)

Ok, well in the UK the average is 59 minutes. Being an average it means many people are having longer commutes than that. I'd like to see the mean number.

https://news.sky.com/story/average-commute-to-work-now-takes...

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by jobigoud on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:59PM (#23977925)

They don't link to the study but they say 221 hours per year and since there is about 220 working days per year, I think the 59 minutes figure is per day, not for each way to/from work. So about 30 minutes one-way. The US study saying 26.6 minutes is also one-way. So basically they are fairly similar and reasonable.

A 2-hour one-way commute just seems crazy to me, I know it exists but I think it's very extreme.

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by jonsen on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:53PM (#23977815)

It’s comparable, US number is one way. With one hour commute per work day it’s a little over 1/5 then. With four hour daily commute you are over 1/4 but not close to 1/3 of your time.

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Re:We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) by monkeynotes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:35PM (#23978428)

As I said, there are around 112 waking hours in a week, spending 37.5 of them working is not 1/5th of your week, it's close to 1/3.

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