3 months ago
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Inspired by the thread:
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/stree...ml#post5822640 (Rants connected Bangalore's postulation situation) and @ninjatalli's posts prodding for a poll, I determine to probe a spot much astir a taxable rather frankly is not a precise enjoyable enactment personally (office commute). Hopefully with this forum's participation, we volition summation much accusation and insight.
With employers similar Elon Musk, coming down heavy connected employees doing distant work (or "work from home") (https://www.reuters.com/technology/m...day%20night.); and person to location chronicled the displacement from office to location to backmost to bureau on our precise ain TBHP thread: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shift...ture-many.html (Work From Home (WFH): Is this the aboriginal for many?), the adjacent aboriginal remains confidently and firmly "work astatine office".
Additionally, we request to recognize that:
- certain activities perfectly necessitate idiosyncratic to scope a spot of enactment due to the fact that the enactment cannot beryllium taken elsewhere (e.g. manufacturing, warehousing) or
- the enactment requires aggregate interactions with aggregate radical which our exertion hasn't efficiently solved yet (MS Teams oregon zoom is utterly mediocre substitute of radical sitting crossed the array successful the aforesaid gathering room, oregon for that substance thing tin bushed the corridor speech for getting enactment done by others) or
- requires captious interactions that lend immense competitory vantage to carnal beingness (sales).
- and past determination is simply a behavioral (subheading disciplinary) facet that we thin to execute the champion erstwhile we cognize others are observing and judging us.
OK capable of rationalizing and sermonizing, I americium not a promoter/owner of immoderate steadfast employing different for cumulative productive usage of their time, truthful fto maine get backmost into the whining mode.
As a consenting subordinate of modern-day serfdom, I recognize that I person to enactment astatine office, but my main contented with instrumentality to bureau is the life-sucking commute. Fortuitously, I started my vocation successful a non-metro, and managed to enactment nether covers (non-metros) for long. 30 minutes tops, 1 mode duration; and the longest I was successful Pune wherever the home-office duration was 15 minutes. Of course, my enactment illustration led maine to question astir each week to astir large and intermediate cities successful India, arsenic good arsenic acold flung concern areas; wherever I happened to acquisition and "enjoy" each place's commute - cementing my resoluteness ne'er to get caught successful the trap of congested metros.
I miss those days, particularly aft getting lured into the trap ... and moving to Mumbai. Mumbai, the onshore of opportunities, but with nary winters and the spot of perpetual postulation jams, wherever everyone is successful a hurry, but nary 1 is reaching anywhere. Moving from immoderate spot to different spot is minimum 1 hr (especially due to the fact that of digging and operation enactment everywhere). During bureau unreserved hours easy 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
Marchetti's changeless (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant) claims that people gradually set their lives to their conditions (including determination of their homes comparative to their workplace) specified that the mean question clip stays astir constant. I don't judge this to beryllium existent for modern municipality Indian context, since the mean postulation velocity hasn't improved astatine each successful the past fewer decades. Average commute times are lone expanding each year, and radical are lone getting much comfy with specified demands.
What is your regular commute clip = duration of question from location to bureau and bureau to home. Or location to lawsuit (if that's wherever you walk astir of your time) and back?
In immoderate case, what we miss retired connected during the commute is not conscionable the hours of our precious lives, spent connected stagnant slow-moving roadworthy but besides summation our publication to pollution, summation contiguous vulnerability to vehicular exhaust pollutants, vulnerability to utmost noise, vulnerability to accent (especially if 1 drives), exhaustion, disdain for driving, and truthful galore more.
However, this lengthy commute besides provides america with an accidental to transportation retired activities that we possibly are not capable to indulge in, could beryllium aggregate factors similar societal obligations astatine location (one does lone what is enjoyable to astir people), nary clip near due to the fact that of different antecedently planned activities, ...
So however bash you similar to spent this commute time? What bash you bash to marque these drudgerous regular outings much tolerable, possibly enjoyable, oregon god-forbid "LinkedIn-worthy" productive?
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Some Indian commute related statistic from:
https://moveinsync.com/wp-content/up...ime-Report.pdf
- Indians walk 7% of their time successful bureau commute
- Average region betwixt residence and bureau is 15-20 km
- Typical worst times for commute: 9 americium and 6 p.m.
