50 miles seems like too much to me tbh. 20 I could see but damn 50 is quite a commute!
I’m only like 2 miles from my office but I have to take the bus to go in and most days I simply don’t bother. There’s nothing I do at the office I can’t do from home. Luckily my firm gets that.
A lot of people around here commute 50-60 miles one way to take jobs in the city. It’s so much cheaper to buy a house that way. I did it for four months and it was awful unless I was riding the commuter train (and I had to drive 15 miles just to get to the closest stop).
But that doesn’t compare to one of the executives at my old job who commuted 120 miles one-way. I think I told him he was doing the most to his face because nope.
I think my LA job had 50 miles because it was common to live that far out? Is Zoom based in San Fran? Because I could see them having that policy since no one can afford to actually live in San Fran.
zoom hq is in san jose, so bay area. so they are basically asking if you live within an hour drive you gotta come in, but thats no traffic times. i live in oakland so id guess a normal commute drive would be closer to 90min to and fro actually.
it is too much, but it’s a commute that a lot of people are used to and being asked to resume. fredricksburg, va is about 50 miles from DC and Richmond, and it’s a commuter suburb of both. Some people commute from even further in western MD, WV, and even PA (thought there is the MARC/Amtrak option) bc of COL. i suspect zoom is getting pressured or incentives to do this.
I have to go in once a week and because of my hours my commute is nearly 3 hours round trip because it’s in the middle of rush hour. The drive should only take a total of 2 hours at most round trip (and even that is too much). Public transit would take like twice as long where I am now. I can deal with 1 day a week because the one thing I can’t do remotely is mail so it’s fair to have us spread throughout the week so everyone does their fair share of that work. I don’t know how I did the long 5 days a week commute pre-pandemic because my commute has always been at least 50m each way. It sucked.
I used to commute over 60 to work and now I'm down to half that at my new job (post pandemic). Granted, I don't have a job that I can even consider remote work.
in HS my parents decided to move from the city to the middle of nowhere so I had an hour commute to school. If I had classes at 8:15 my ass would get up at 4:45 to catch my train. 💩
I’m only like 2 miles from my office but I have to take the bus to go in and most days I simply don’t bother. There’s nothing I do at the office I can’t do from home. Luckily my firm gets that.
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As someone that wishes my 5 mi commute was shorter. No thank you
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But that doesn’t compare to one of the executives at my old job who commuted 120 miles one-way. I think I told him he was doing the most to his face because nope.
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I can deal with 1 day a week because the one thing I can’t do remotely is mail so it’s fair to have us spread throughout the week so everyone does their fair share of that work.
I don’t know how I did the long 5 days a week commute pre-pandemic because my commute has always been at least 50m each way. It sucked.
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I have 142 mile commute both ways to the office
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