> Taking the commute out of my job gave me an additional 4 hours everyday not counting lower stress levels.
While I'm a huge proponent of WFH-forever and eliminating the commute, I have to say that it hasn't increased my time much.
That's because with everyone commuting, we approximately never had meetings before 10am since everyone knew everyone might be stuck in traffic, so no point scheduling anything earlier. And certainly no meetings after 5pm since everyone had to hit the commute nightmare.
With the pandemic WFH, I'm seeing meetings as early as 8am and up to 6pm, since there is no "excuse" of having to commute. So the time I was sitting in traffic I'm now sitting in zoom.
Sure, I'd rather take zoom than traffic, but overall it didn't free up much time.
While I'm a huge proponent of WFH-forever and eliminating the commute, I have to say that it hasn't increased my time much.
That's because with everyone commuting, we approximately never had meetings before 10am since everyone knew everyone might be stuck in traffic, so no point scheduling anything earlier. And certainly no meetings after 5pm since everyone had to hit the commute nightmare.
With the pandemic WFH, I'm seeing meetings as early as 8am and up to 6pm, since there is no "excuse" of having to commute. So the time I was sitting in traffic I'm now sitting in zoom.
Sure, I'd rather take zoom than traffic, but overall it didn't free up much time.