{"id":116021,"date":"2022-10-18T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116021"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:32:14","slug":"bloomberg-americans-reclaim-60-million-commuting-hours-in-remote-work-perk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116021","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans who are working from home have reclaimed 60 million hours that they used to spend commuting to an office each day. They\u2019re now using that time to get more sleep instead.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the takeaway from a\u00a0research by the\u00a0Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which\u00a0analyzed data from the American Time Use Survey to see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org\/2022\/10\/what-have-workers-done-with-the-time-freed-up-by-commuting-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what US workers spent their time<\/a>\u00a0on when they weren\u2019t stuck on a crowded train or locked in traffic.\u00a0The main findings: Employees spent fewer total hours working\u00a0and substantially more on sleep and leisure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-18\/americans-reclaim-60-million-commuting-hours-in-remote-work-perk\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s post (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NzO7DjaAqp\">https:\/\/t.co\/NzO7DjaAqp<\/a>) examining how remote workers have allocated their time saved by not commuting informs a Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@business<\/a> report. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QBOvjo1chN\">https:\/\/t.co\/QBOvjo1chN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NY Fed Research (@NYFedResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYFedResearch\/status\/1582470071871758337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans who are working from home have reclaimed 60 million hours that they used to spend commuting to an office each day. They\u2019re now using that time to get more sleep instead. That\u2019s the takeaway from a\u00a0research by the\u00a0Federal Reserve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116021\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,104,597,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-internet","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116024,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116021\/revisions\/116024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}