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🌟 Reducing the Burden of Transportation: Enhancing the Daily Commute 🌟 In today's fast-paced world, the daily commute can be a significant stressor for a common person. Long hours spent on the road and in traffic not only affect productivity but also impact the overall well-being. Here are a few innovative strategies companies can implement to make the office commute more manageable and sustainable: 🚗 Embrace the Hybrid Model: Allowing employees to work from home part-time can significantly reduce the total number of commuters on the road at any given point of time. Hybrid work models provide flexibility, improve work-life balance, and cut down on unnecessary travel, leading to happier and more productive employees. ⏰ Stagger Office Timings: Instead of having a single start and end time, consider offering flexible working hours. Staggering office timings can distribute traffic more evenly throughout the day, reducing peak-hour congestion and making the commute smoother for everyone. 📍 Optimize Office Locations: For companies with multiple offices within the city, assigning employees to the nearest location can greatly reduce travel time. This not only minimizes the strain on transportation infrastructure but also enhances employee satisfaction by shortening their daily commute. By adopting these strategies, companies can play a crucial role in alleviating the transportation burden on our roads. Let's work together to create a more efficient commute for everyone! #HybridWork #FlexibleHours #SustainableTransportation #ProductivityBoost #CorporateResponsibility  #TalentManagement #SustainableTransport #TrafficManagement #UrbanPlanning #MobilitySolutions #TransportPlanning #CityPlanning

“If I had to be in the office five days a week, there’s no way” An interesting effect of mass adoption of hybrid work: people actually commuting from farther away… It seems crazy but with the price of housing, interest rates, and the need to only be in 1-3 days a week people are making the longer distances work. I personally know several people who commute by rail to other cities for their hybrid schedules so this next part wasn’t shocking. “The average distance to work rose to 27 miles at the end of 2023 from 10 miles in 2019, according to Gusto’s study of 52,000 employees at more than 6,800 businesses” I admit I do sometimes miss my train and ferry commutes if for nothing other than the reading time! Are you commuting farther post pandemic? Full details in the WSJ article here: https://lnkd.in/gn27-7_d #workplace #commuting #hybridwork #remotework #futureofwork

The Wall Street Journal | Anne Marie Chaker ‘The staying power of hybrid work means they don’t have to drive into work every day…’ Craig Allender says he can tolerate his new 63-mile drive to work since he only has to go in three times a week. ‘If I had to be in the office five days a week, there’s no way,’ says the managing director of an engineering company in Oakland. Examining two million morning commutes over the same four-month period in 2023-24 and 2019-20, Stanford University economists Nick Bloom and Alex Finan found the number of longer drives—though still a fraction of total trips—rose the most over the four years: As a share of all morning commutes, those between 50 and 74 miles rose 18%, while those 75 miles and up rose 32%. Commutes less than 35 miles, which were the majority of all commutes, declined, according to their analysis of data from transportation research firm INRIX. Bloom says the data points to a shift away from living close to workplaces. He attributes the widespread adoption of hybrid work—allowing employees to do their jobs from home on certain days—as the key driver. A two-hour long car ride, performed twice a day, would be punishing as a regular commute. The difference now, he adds, is that many of these commuters are doing it once or twice a week. The average distance to work rose to 27 miles at the end of 2023 from 10 miles in 2019, according to Gusto’s study of 52,000 employees at more than 6,800 businesses. #SDGs #HybridWorkplace #WFH #WFA #WalkableUrbanism #20MinuteNeighbourhoods #TimelessUrbanism #IMBY #EBikes #COVID19

The 10x Commuting Emissions Gap: What's Going On? 🚗💨 Our analysis of 59 leading global companies revealed a 10x difference in reported commuting emissions per employee between the highest and lowest emitters. What's driving this huge gap? 🤔 Key findings: - 78% of the companies we researched report commuting and home working emissions - 44% also include working from home impacts - Companies reporting both commuting and WFH have 20% lower emissions per employee Unpacking the Emissions Gap Buy what explains the big difference in emissions per employee? - Methodology differences: Companies use various approaches, with 49% using averages for commuting and 29% using distance-based surveys. Even within these categories though approaches vary widely. - Materiality judgments: Some companies deem commuting "immaterial" while at the same time their closest peers report it. - Inclusion of working from home: Including working from home typically leads to lower emissions per employee. But even in this area there are inconsistent approaches to measuring home energy use. - Real differences in commuting patterns: Factors such as office locations (urban vs. suburban), public transport availability, and company policies on remote work can create genuine variations in emissions. Interested in diving deeper? DM me for a link to the full report (no cost) on best practices in calculating commuting and home working emissions.

New for Business Insider with Juliana Kaplan and Eliza Relman: Americans are on their way to work — and they probably still have a long way to go. New research first reported by The Wall Street Journal shows that more workers are supercommuting, meaning they're traveling more than 75 miles each way for work. That can add up to nearly five hours a day spent commuting — a sacrifice more workers are willing to make as hybrid work expands the area they can call home. The number of Americans making this long trek to work has skyrocketed since the pandemic. Using GPS data from car data software company INRIX including about 200,000 trips per city among big US metros, Stanford University economists Nick Bloom and Alex Finan determined that the share of supercommutes of at least 75 miles each way increased by 32% post-pandemic — representing 2.9% of total trips. Some trips, they found, are as long as five hours each way, with some starting their commutes at 3 a.m.

A 640.875 million metric tons per year reduction in CO2 emissions, this is what adopting a hybrid work model worldwide where office workers work from home half the time could mean for the world. Here are some eye-opening equivalents to put this reduction in perspective for all of those companies looking for a new way to enhance their ESG strategy while ushering their employees back to the office full time: #Sustainability #RemoteWork #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact #GreenFuture #ESG Assumptions: • Global Office Workers: 1.25 billion. • Commute Distance: 20 km round-trip. • Emissions per km: • Car: 0.25 kg CO2. • Public Transport: 0.1 kg CO2. • Commuting Methods: 70% by car, 30% by public transport. • Workdays per Year: 250 days. • Impact of 50% Remote Work: Reduced commute days to 125 days.

Recent analysis of commuter trends from the Financial Times seems to dispel post pandemic predictions that the commute was dead, but does suggest it has taken a different shape in most recent years.   The analysis details how although commuting numbers are slowly creeping back towards pre-pandemic levels, it’s the shift to new working habits that employers and landlords need to be aware of. With workers in the US favouring longer but less frequent commutes, more businesses look set to embrace hybrid and flexible workspace solutions as a way of coping with shifting demands for office space.   Are you a Landlord whose current and future clients could benefit from a flexible workspace? Get in touch with Covalt to see how we can help you.   #flexibleworkspace #commuting #workspace #coworking #hybridworking   Read the full piece online here: https://lnkd.in/eFMA-QsY

USA: Return-to-Office Mandates Could Get in the Way of Some Supposedly Important Corporate Goals The problem with forcing people back to the office? All the carbon emissions. When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have been spent getting things done? Life was often lonely for those stuck in their homes, but people found something to appreciate when birdsong rang through the quiet streets. And the temporary dip in travel had the side effect of cutting global #carbonemissions by 7% in 2020 — a blip of good news in an otherwise miserable year. Emissions bounced back in 2021, when people started resuming some of their normal activities, but offices have never been the same. While #remotework was rare before the pandemic, today, 28% of Americans are working a “hybrid” schedule, going into the office some days, and 13% are working remotely full-time. Recent #data suggest that remote work could speed along companies’ plans to zero out their carbon emissions, but businesses don’t seem to be considering #climatechange in their decisions about the future of office work. “In the U.S., I’m sad to say it’s just not high on the priority list,” said Kate Lister, the founder of the consulting firm Global Workplace Analytics. “It gets up there, and then it drops again for the next shiny object.” Commuter travel falls under a company’s so-called “Scope 3” emissions, the #indirectsources that routinely get ignored, but represent, on average, three-quarters of the business world’s emissions. A 10% increase in people working remotely could reduce carbon emissions by 192 million metric tons a year, according to a study published in the journal Nature Cities earlier this month (https://lnkd.in/e-G3SH-C). That would cut emissions from the country’s #mostpollutingsector, #transportation, by 10%. Those findings align with other peer-reviewed research: Switching to remote work instead of going into the office can cut a person’s carbon footprint by 54%, according to a study published in the journal PNAS last fall (https://lnkd.in/eJpukr45), even when accounting for non-commute travel and residential energy use. “It seems like a very obvious solution to a very pressing and real problem,” said Curtis Sparrer, a principal and co-founder of the PR agency Bospar, a San Francisco-based company where employees have been working remotely since it started in 2015. “And I am concerned that this whole ‘return to office’ thing is getting in the way.” Many companies are mandating their employees show up for in-person work regularly. Last year, big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta told employees that they had to come back to the office three days a week or face consequences, like...

One aspect that is often overlooked about WFH is the impact on reducing carbon emissions by removing commuter cars from the roads. Learn more in this post! https://hubs.ly/Q02mV-NC0 #IT #wfh #remote

How Far Are You Willing to Commute? 🚗 Did you know? 18% of commuters now travel 40 miles or more from their workplace, up from 16% pre-pandemic. 🚀 Why does this matter? 🌍 Shifts in work location dynamics ⌛ Increased commuting time 🔄 Changing transportation needs Welcome to Metrics Monday! Every week, we share intriguing stats about transportation and arrival technology. #MondayMetric #TransportationTrends #Commuting #WorkplaceDynamics #MetricsMonday