If you think U.S. roads have gotten busier on your morning commute, you’re not alone.
The rate of workers driving to their jobs creeped upwards nationwide last year, as did those who carpool to work by car, truck or van. The mean commuting time jumped by almost a minute in 2022 from the previous year, as more businesses ended full-time remote work, a sign that post-pandemic life edged closer in 2022 to what it was before COVID-19.
The rate of people working from home dropped from almost 18% in 2021 to 15.2% in 2022, according to new survey data on life in America released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey covers commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service, and employment, among other topics.
Those of you with very strong technical experience need to pushback very, very strongly against return to office. This effort to force people to waste their precious time in offices where people work together over the phone is absurd.
Where I’m at they stopped running express trains and now it’s a game of “we’re not going to run more trains, nobody’s riding them” vs “it’s more expensive, less convenient, and slower than driving, why would I take the train?”
Time to get back to commuting and breathing carcinogenic air we possibly can (tire particles), literally killing ourselves for work just to be micro-managed once again.
Everyone in traffic just has to put the vehicle in park & stand there ground about remote working. It will frustrate the right people to raise awareness.
