I have a four-hour commute to work. Each way. That means travelling 8 hours plus a full day’s work. Some people would call me crazy, but here’s the thing: the numbers make sense. So when my family and I crunched the data, we decided not to move close to the city where my office is. This is the story of how that decision unfolded — and what the data shows about it.
PS 1: I have no affiliation with any of the companies running the surveys and data I use to crunch my commuting numbers.
PS 2: All images are authored by me unless otherwise specified.
Before getting into my commuting story, I thought it would be good to introduce why I got round to writing this article. With Amazon’s recent announcement about bringing more employees back to the office, our data science and data engineering teams have been a bit restless. The tech industry is one of those where working from home and hybrid work is more prevalent. At Skyscanner, our Data Science discipline is 40+ people strong and is scattered across London, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Shenzhen. The same happens to the teams…