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| ▲ | Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We’re in a weird period where a lot of jobs went fully remote around COVID, many weren’t prepared for it, and now they’re doing the opposite over-reaction and forcing everyone back. A lot of the people I know who went remote after COVID took remote jobs at new companies (remember “the great resignation”?) or moved to a new house because they thought they were done with commuting. Then their companies said they wanted everyone back. |
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| ▲ | closeparen 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Most of the 60 minute travel time radius around a San Francisco or Silicon Valley tech HQ is water and nature preserve. |
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| ▲ | forestrywat 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you have a citation for that? |
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| ▲ | bluefirebrand 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 60+ minute commutes are outliers and I don’t understand why a person would take a job that far away without being aware of the commute or moving closer to the work 60+ minute commute times are very common where I live. If you are anywhere outside of the downtown area you either pay for parking (expensive) and have a shorter commute, or you use public transit (cheap) and have a long commute. When I used to commute to an office it was easily an hour to an hour and a half each way every day. I hated it |
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| ▲ | ghaff 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | When I commuted semi-regularly into a downtown office, it was a good 90 minutes. Latterly, going into a newer company's customer briefing center was more like 2 hours each way. I had access to commuter rail which was more pleasant than driving so long as I didn't have an evening dinner/event. but it took about the same length of time. One answer to the parent's question is that I owned/own a house which was a pretty manageable 25 minute suburban commute which I wasn't going to sell just because I got a new job. (Which didn't last that long anyway.) | |
| ▲ | cosmic_cheese 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, I get the sense that this varies a lot depending on area and economic strata. In the poor rural area my hometown is located, 1-3h+ commutes aren't unusual, partially out of necessity (there aren't enough jobs nearby to sustain the population). |
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| ▲ | tikhonj 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I mean, in a lot of these cases people take those jobs because they're able to work remotely initially... and then get hit with an inflexible, top-down RTO mandate once they've settled into the role. |
