Is it normal to travel 2 hours for work?

If you're referring to a daily 2-hour commute from home to office, yes, this is very common in large US metropolitan areas — especially cities that have a high cost of living such as New York City, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Is travel time considered hours worked?



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Commuting from home to work should be less than 50 miles and within 30 minutes, and the surrounding area of your workplace should be within 50 miles of your home. It is ideal for commuters to take at least 5 minutes to commute to work, and the one-way commute should take more than 16 minutes.

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Yes, it is probably possible, but you really don't want to do so if you can avoid it. If you are doing a regular 35 hours week then a 1.5-hour commute is doable and you'll have enough time left to do something in the evenings, but not much.

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If having a shorter commute is important to you, then it may be worth travelling one hour for your new job. On the other hand, if having more free time or being able to spend more time with family and friends is important to you, then it might not be worth travelling an hour each day for work.

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Census Bureau Estimates Show Average One-Way Travel Time to Work Rises to All-Time High
  • In 2019, the average one-way commute in the United States increased to a new high of 27.6 minutes.
  • In 2006, the average travel time for the nation was 25.0 minutes.


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The average one-way commute for Americans is 27.6 minutes. New York City, NY, has the longest average commute time in the U.S. at 34.7 minutes. Since 1980, the average American commute time has increased by 27% (From 21.7 minutes to 27.6 minutes). The average American commutes 41 miles a day to and from work.

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People who take work trips two weeks or more a month report more symptoms of anxiety and depression and are more likely to smoke and have difficulty sleeping, compared to those who travel one to six nights a month, according to a new study by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and City University of ...

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Work travel often involves a high-pressure atmosphere and a taxing schedule that leads to unhealthy diets, a lack of regular exercise, poor sleeping habits, and even unhealthy vices like drinking too much alcohol or smoking.

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The stress of commuting can leave you feeling more fatigued. Inactive commuting can be detrimental to your health. Longer commute means long sitting hours which can hurt your health, increase your waistline, cause joint stiffness and back pain.

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The biggest and most obvious advantage of a shorter commute is the time you'll save. If you're able to trim off 30 minutes of commuting each way, that's an hour a day, which saves you 250 hours of time every year (if you work five days per week and have two weeks of vacation).

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The average American commute time to and from work is 55 minutes. Given that Americans spend an average of 27.6 minutes traveling one way, that means it takes nearly an hour for them to commute both ways each day.

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In 2019, the duration of the average one-way commute in the United States increased to a new high of 27.6 minutes, and a record 9.8 percent of commuters reported daily one-way commutes of at least 1 hour.

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It's not too long. Probably about average. You need to have 2 or 3 different ways to get to work because of rush hour wrecks. I averaged 46 miles a day, to work and to home.

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