More than 14 million people in the country endure "extreme commuting" of more than 60 minutes!
Recently, the "2022 China Major Cities Commuting Monitoring Report" jointly released by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and Baidu Map shows that in 2021, the population of the country who endures "extreme commuting" of more than 60 minutes will exceed 14 million, accounting for 13% of the commuter population, and long-distance commuting has become a common phenomenon in large cities. Of the 14 million "extreme commuters," nearly 6 million are young people.
In the country's four megacities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen), the average commuting distance is 9.3 kilometers, and the average commuting distance in Beijing is 11.1 kilometers. Beijing commutes in 47 minutes, making it the only city in The country that spends more than 45 minutes on an average one-way commute.
Can working from home solve the serious problem of extreme commuting?
The time spent on the road every day is not only a personal experience of unhappiness, but also about 2 hours of work or leisure time. Solving the commuting problem is mainly to vigorously develop traffic and implement scientific traffic management to improve traffic efficiency, which is also a path dependence. In fact, in addition to these path dependencies, there are other valid paths. For example, renting a house closer to the company, or a more extreme home office!
The trend of the remote office sector in the past year
Source: Click Palm Finance
After experiencing the new crown epidemic, everyone is not unfamiliar with the word home work, during the epidemic period, the remote office sector has been repeatedly hyped by funds, but at present, the domestic epidemic situation tends to be stable, and the remote office sector is also in the stage of low shock!
Working from home may fundamentally solve the commuting problem of workers, but for most industries, working from home is almost impossible to achieve, not only because of the work content, but also the drawbacks of working from home are particularly prominent! Face-to-face communication with colleagues and leaders, interpersonal alienation, inability to participate in group meetings, training, technical seminars, etc., the final result of working from home is: low work efficiency!
Five-dimensional scoring in the Telecommuting section
Source: A Niu ZhiTou
We can see that the five-dimensional score of the remote work sector is only 40 points, whether from the perspective of growth ability, risk return, valuation space or swing operation, the score of the remote office plate is very low, only the score of the emotional selection is slightly higher, but the so-called emotion, that is, the small probability of the plate fluctuations caused by these small probability events such as being affected by the epidemic!
What are the ways to alleviate extreme commuting? Hit the workers! Hard work!
Therefore, remote work is not sustainable, and at present, it is not an effective way to solve extreme commuting, it may be more practical to improve urban planning, implement staggered peak travel, etc. Many cities are also actively creating "15-minute life circles" and "happy commuting" within 5 kilometers, and some have also planned special bicycle lanes to create urban cycling systems. These measures have also alleviated the serious situation of extreme commuting to a certain extent!
Previously, the University of Cambridge conducted a large-scale study of 34,000 workers in conjunction with multiple institutions, and the impact of excessive commuting hours on the psychological conditions of workers can be much more serious. The study showed that people who commuted 60 minutes a day had a 33 percent higher risk of depression than those who commuted for shorter periods of time. 46% of workers who commute for a long time get less than enough sleep, usually less than 7 hours. The reduction in time caused by long commuting will inevitably lead to a decrease in the amount of time spent exercising and the motivation to exercise.
All in all, it's really not easy for our generation of workers!
How long do you commute? Do you suffer from "extreme commuting" every day? What do you think our society can do to solve the problem of extreme commuting? Welcome to leave a message to communicate!
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