Updated: 9:14 AM EDT April 19, 2021
ATLANTA Working from home has allowed many Americans to skip the daily stress of traffic jams, but some say we’re missing out on the beneficial elements of a commute.
It doesn’t have to be a bumper-to-bumper red knuckle drive along the Downtown Connector. It may be hard to grasp for anyone who’s grown tired of Atlanta traffic, but researchers have found actual value in a daily commute.
Jon Jachimowicz of Harvard’s Business School has been part of a study that concluded our commutes serve as a barrier between work and home.
“Without commutes and the physical separation from our offices, how do you stop from feeling like you’re living at work?” Jachimowicz asked.
Of all the things work-from-home employees might miss about pre-pandemic life, commuting wouldn t seem to register high on the attention metre. But nearly a year after being sent home from the office, some employees, such as Giza, have realised that losing that time in the car - or on the bus, train or street - has had some drawbacks. Jon Jachimowicz, an assistant professor of business administration in the organisational behaviour unit at Harvard Business School, says commuting provides a temporal and spatial separation between all the different roles we play. It s a buffer that eases the transition from one identity to the next, a consistent dose of in-between time to reflect and reset.
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