Study: When employees don’t have to commute, they work
When employees are allowed to work remotely, they most often use the time they would have spent commuting to the office working.
On average, employees save 72 minutes in commute time every day when they’re allowed to work from home rather than in the office, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA) study performed by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
“That’s a large time savings, especially when multiplied by hundreds of millions of workers around the world,” the study said. “These results suggest that much of the time savings flow back to employers, and that children and other caregiving recipients also benefit.”