{"id":2858,"date":"2017-12-12T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:08:27","slug":"44-of-people-commute-more-than-a-half-hour-to-work-each-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/44-of-people-commute-more-than-a-half-hour-to-work-each-day\/","title":{"rendered":"44% of People Commute More Than a Half Hour to Work Each Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

For nearly half of workers, a 30-plus minute commute is the norm.<\/p>\n

About 44% of people say they commute at least a half hour each day, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 employees across the tech industry responded to the query.<\/p>\n

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While commutes are longer than 30 minutes for a significant portion of workers, the majority of workers (56%) have a commute that is less than 30 minutes. Indeed, half of those workers have a commute of less than 15 minutes and the other half have a commute between 15 minutes and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

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The best and worst commutes by city<\/b><\/p>\n

The cities where respondents reported\u00a0commutes of under 30 minutes were Phoenix (67%), Dallas (61%), and Denver (61%).<\/p>\n

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The cities where respondents reported commutes of more than 30 minutes were New York (57%) and Chicago (51%).<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

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For nearly half of workers, a 30-plus minute commute is the norm. About 44% of people say they commute at least a half hour each day, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 employees across the tech industry responded to the query. The full breakdown While commutes are … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}