I have a four-hour commute to work. In every sense. That means traveling 8 hours plus a full day of work. Some people would call me crazy, but here's the thing: the numbers make sense. So when my family and I looked at the data, we decided not to move near the city where my office is. Here's the story of how that decision played out and what the data shows about it.
PS 1: I have no affiliation with any of the companies that conduct the surveys and data I use to calculate my displacement figures.
PS 2: All images are my own unless otherwise specified.
Before I get into my story about commuting, I thought it would be good to explain why I decided to write this article. With amazon's recent announcement about amazon-work-culture-concerns/” rel=”noopener ugc nofollow” target=”_blank”>bring more employees back to the officeour data science and engineering teams have been a little restless. The technology industry is one where working from home and hybrid working are most common. At Skyscanner, our data science discipline has over 40 people and is spread across London, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Shenzhen. The same thing happens to teams…