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In the United States, the past decade has been marked by booming cities, soaring rents, and a crush of young workers flocking to job-rich downtowns. Although these are heady days for pavement-pounding urbanists, a record 2.6% of American employees now go to their jobs without ever leaving their houses. That's more than walk and bike to work combined.
These numbers come from a Quartz analysis of data from the US census and the American Community Survey. The data show that telecommuting has grown faster than any other way of getting to workâup 159% since 2000. By comparison, the number of Americans who bike to work has grown by 86% over the same period, while the number who drive or carpool has grown by only 12%. We've excluded both part-time and self-employed workers from these and all results.
I'd work from home, but there's no foosball table and the coffee sucks...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:19AM (1 child)
Yeah. In general the US isn't pedestrian or biker friendly. Our overloads have taught us the benefits of consuming oil ... even to the extent that we drive to the mailbox at the end of our driveways. You should try it sometime; it is liberating.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @02:23PM
Only 1 in 40 are coming in to work with pedestrian sweat? Has all the sweat been accounted for?