Sure, I’ve been there, I am there honestly, though I’m not a zoomer and wasn’t a full-on suburb/exurb kid, but I still wouldn’t take a job where I had to drive to an office every day. No fucking shot. Not for a 10% raise, certainly not just for “structure”
If the rest of society wasn’t so fucked up, like if my commute was a walk or bike or reasonable transit trip, and my workplace was a co-op, or even just not as miserably capitalist/hierarchical, then sure, it might be nice to have some structure, but this shit is a psyop to salvage the commercial real estate market or something, almost nobody I know who has WFH or flexible home/in office arrangements wants to be in the office every single day
The average commute to work in the US is 27.6 minutes based on the most recent census. That’s roughly 260 hours per year spent going back and forth or ~3% of the entire year. When you’re young, that time loss might not matter as much, but when you have adult shit to do, an extra hour a day is crucial.
not really “having adult shit to do” so much as just “having too much on your plate and having to bust ass to make ends meet/fulfill your obligations” which definitely applies to some young people too. 33.
But like I said, if that time was at least not an active stressor, or ideally was actively enriching, “wasting” 3% of the year on it might be fine. But 95% of the US population doesn’t live in that reality
Sure, I’ve been there, I am there honestly, though I’m not a zoomer and wasn’t a full-on suburb/exurb kid, but I still wouldn’t take a job where I had to drive to an office every day. No fucking shot. Not for a 10% raise, certainly not just for “structure”
If the rest of society wasn’t so fucked up, like if my commute was a walk or bike or reasonable transit trip, and my workplace was a co-op, or even just not as miserably capitalist/hierarchical, then sure, it might be nice to have some structure, but this shit is a psyop to salvage the commercial real estate market or something, almost nobody I know who has WFH or flexible home/in office arrangements wants to be in the office every single day
The average commute to work in the US is 27.6 minutes based on the most recent census. That’s roughly 260 hours per year spent going back and forth or ~3% of the entire year. When you’re young, that time loss might not matter as much, but when you have adult shit to do, an extra hour a day is crucial.
not really “having adult shit to do” so much as just “having too much on your plate and having to bust ass to make ends meet/fulfill your obligations” which definitely applies to some young people too. 33.
But like I said, if that time was at least not an active stressor, or ideally was actively enriching, “wasting” 3% of the year on it might be fine. But 95% of the US population doesn’t live in that reality