What does your commute look like?
Did.it change at all during the height of the COVID pandemic? Has it changed since?

9/28/2024 4:42:54 PM

I work from home most of the time now. During COVID, we went to a full remote policy. Even now, they only mandate we come into the office once a week.

I usually go into the office once or twice a week. My commute is about 20, and the majority of that is because of traffic. It's a godsend in the DC metro area.

9/28/2024 4:45:07 PM

i traverse roadways within a motor vehicle

9/28/2024 10:25:28 PM

Mine mostly looks like a line. Maybe a drunk line.

9/28/2024 10:40:21 PM

Mine is about 50 minutes each way (ranges from prob 45 on a good day to over an hour if anything backs up traffic). It's just under 30 miles each way.

I've been doing that since 2012, except for not quite 3 years where I was working a different job 65 miles away, which was a little over an hour each way, plus about a half-mile or 3/4 mile walk once I got there. That sucked.

COVID had no impact; we barely missed a beat, except we were wearing masks when we could, and for about a year, we'd get sent home (paid) for a day or two or sometimes a week or more if the decision matrix they had required it due to exposures, positives tests, etc. Post-COVID, same as it always was.

In about 8 months, my daughter will graduate HS and I'll have nothing to tether me to where I live. I can move closer to work, or take a different job and live wherever I want. Right now, I think I'm gonna stay put for a couple of years until I can get hired as a pilot for an overseas rotating contract job (gone ~2 months, back 2 months). Do that for a few years, then go to the airlines if I want to.

[Edited on September 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM. Reason : ]

9/29/2024 6:59:56 PM

Right now I'm pretty consistently 20-25min each way. I generally go in Mon/Tues/Thurs and some Wednesdays depending on the week. I very rarely go in on Friday unless we have some people in town. I work for a small startup where things are moving very quickly so we are pushing hard on in-person currently.

The company I was working at during COVID was 100% WFH from ~March 2020 until vaccines became available ~April 2021. It became optional to go in around then - I started going in about 2x / week but was pretty sporadic. Summer 2022 we started to require interns to come in 3x / week. Summer 2023 the whole company was mandated to come in 2x / week but adoption was maybe 50% of employees. I no longer work at that company but they added a third day in January 2024 which made Fridays mandatory office days and it's the highest office attendance day currently which surprised me.

9/30/2024 11:51:00 AM

20-30 minutes each way in a European Capital if things are moving. During Covid years I was in PRC. Almost never worked from home. Had an apartment in our factory/office. So slept in office apartment during lock down days.

[Edited on October 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM. Reason : a]

10/5/2024 4:23:24 PM

What kind of car is a European capital? Citroen or something?

10/15/2024 5:42:22 PM

Capital city of an European country, brah!

10/16/2024 3:16:08 PM

Went remote March 2020. Company sold it's in person offices by end of 2020. Got another remote job in 2021. Travelled a bit to Seattle and Virginia. Company started pulling people back in the office through a bunch of increasingly tough policies and told me to move back to west coast so I bailed and got another remote job.

Occasionally I commute 5-8 minutes to a local library or coffee shop. Fully expect to have to go into an office again eventually, just not with 3 kids under 4.

10/20/2024 9:18:55 AM

I never got to work from home before the pandemic, so I got a place about 4.5 miles from campus and can usually leave my house and be at my office in ten minutes. I don't live on a bus line so I have to drive in, but with 15+ years of state service, I can park pretty close now.

Worked from home for months during the pandemic when we shutdown. Eventually we did an on campus rotation (one week on, three weeks WFH) and eventually returned to a regular schedule. Still get one WFH day a week during the school year and two WFH a week in the summer. Wife works right across the street so she rides with me. She does not get to WFH ever, so she parks in my spot if I'm WFH.

10/24/2024 12:29:31 PM

In August I went from school level department lead to a district level position. I traded in a 4 mile drive to work for a 10-20 mile drive mile drive just to get to my first school of the day. It's been rough adjusting to driving all over the county after being just a few miles from work for the last 6 years

[Edited on November 2, 2024 at 4:40 PM. Reason : Sp]

11/2/2024 4:39:20 PM