Without an office to commute to, the separation between work and home becomes tenuous. So, what are we doing wrong? Lesson #1: Working from home or living at work?
Having more time does not necessarily mean that we use it wisely. and Europe during the pandemic show that the additional time is often burned on unproductive work and unsatisfying leisure activities. On the contrary, data we collected from 12,000 people across the U.S.
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In the United States alone, eliminating the daily commute has saved workers around 89 million hours each week - equivalent to time savings of more than 44.5 million full workdays since the pandemic began! These numbers suggest that working remotely could be a deus ex machina for reclaiming one of our most precious and limited resources: time.īut despite the potential for staggering time savings, many have struggled to achieve everything they hoped the pandemic would finally make time for: baking sourdough, meditating, or writing the next great literary masterpiece. While the widespread shift to remote work hasn’t been without its challenges, it does offer a major silver lining: For many of us, commuting has become a thing of the past. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers.
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