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TIL In a 2022 survey by FlexJobs, 45% of remote workers reported saving at least $5,000 annually and one in 5 remote workers estimated saving $10,000 a year. (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Working from home for me is worth about $3,000 per year in gasoline alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The freedom to backpack around other countries while working remotely is worth about $20,000 per year to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

About $7k in mass transit costs for me.

And then they wonder why I said "none" to "how many days a week will you be in?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where do you live that transit costs you that much? That's astonishingly high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tristate area, commute to NYC, only option is a private carrier. Prices change based on the cost of fuel mostly, varies from $500-700/mo.

And yes, it's absurd.

Edit: I should add that's the discounted monthly option for 40 trips (so 20 days of commuting). If I pay each day, it's $100/day, which is what I do now since I don't commute in enough anymore to be worth any of the discounted commuter options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

£2600 tube fare, and that's not counting lunch, coffee etc.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

And that doesn't even include cost of living.

I would spend at least 500€ a month for comparable living standards in the city the nearest office is located in. And even then, I'd live somewhere in a half-ghetto 1h away from the office.

I'd be really interested in statistics about the amount of actual in presence work. Maybe software development is the absolute outlier here, but every single team I've worked in was distributed in some form. If half the team is 500km away anyway, being in the office changes nothing compared to being at home.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

And think about the savings in road rage stress, and time wasted commuting.