{"id":59627,"date":"2017-05-06T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59627"},"modified":"2017-05-06T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T19:57:07","slug":"ft-one-suitcase-two-lives-the-rise-of-the-weekly-commuter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59627","title":{"rendered":"(FT) One suitcase, two lives: the rise of the weekly commuter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1980 book The Third Wave, the futurist Alvin Toffler predicted the rise of the \u201celectronic cottage\u201d. The idea was that technology would become so ubiquitous that working from home would replace the 9-5 slog in a cubicle, in the process helping to \u201cglue the family together again\u201d. As Iain Gately, the author of Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work, put it: \u201cThe power to work anywhere and everywhere \u2014 have laptop, will travel \u2014 or stay at home according to one\u2019s mood, seized the imaginations of Generation X: every day could be a No Pants Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet that future has not arrived. Smartphones and laptops may be everywhere, but they have not given many white-collar employees the opportunity to work full-time in pyjamas from log cabins. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4fd8769c-2f89-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a\">Read it all<\/a> (may require subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1980 book The Third Wave, the futurist Alvin Toffler predicted the rise of the \u201celectronic cottage\u201d. The idea was that technology would become so ubiquitous that working from home would replace the 9-5 slog in a cubicle, in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59627\">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":[101,199,597,98,138,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-england-uk","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-travel","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627","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=59627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59628,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions\/59628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}