Almost half of UK adults who no longer commute are working overtime

A caller survey has recovered that galore Brits who nary longer commute to enactment are starting earlier and finishing aboriginal than they utilized to erstwhile they didn't enactment from home

Two-thirds of adults who person switched to distant moving confess they miss their regular commute.

The survey of 1,000 individuals who utilized to thrust to enactment earlier 2020 has revealed that 75% of participants agreed that commuting to and from enactment helped support their work-life balance.

Over 3 quarters (77%) felt that commuting ensured they logged disconnected from enactment punctually. Now, 48% admit they commencement enactment earlier than before, with 46% clocking successful much overtime.

The survey besides recovered that one-third agreed that commuting helped them conception their time and modulation from enactment to location mode, with astir a 5th (18%) missing the accidental to unwind connected their travel home.

The study, commissioned by DS Automobiles, recovered that 1 successful 5 confessed they didn't realise however overmuch they'd miss travelling to enactment until they stopped doing it.

Jules Tilstone, UK managing manager for the premium French car brand, said: "We expect each drivers person moaned astir having to get up aboriginal to get to enactment connected time, oregon astir being stuck successful traffic. But really arsenic the findings amusement - radical are missing that clip successful their car and the affirmative aspects which came with commuting."

"It seems to person had a existent interaction connected routine, wellbeing and equilibrium betwixt enactment and home. Whether it's thing arsenic elemental arsenic listening to a podcast during the drive, the commute gave radical the clip to bash that and power disconnected from different thoughts, but astatine location it's harder to find that routine."

The mean commute was recovered to beryllium 38 minutes long, and portion 33% effort to utilise this clip to get retired of the location earlier starting their workday, 32% usage it to drawback up connected slumber and 29% to browse societal media.

TOP 20 THINGS DRIVERS MISS ABOUT COMMUTING TO WORK:

1. Having clip to myself
2. Listening to the radio
3. Listening to the quality
4. Listening to my ain playlist
5. Listening to podcasts
6. Singing retired large to songs
7. It being portion of my regular
8. Decompress from enactment connected my mode home
9. Switching disconnected from home/family beingness
10. Planning the time up successful my caput
11. Switching disconnected from enactment beingness
12. Taking successful the views
13. Buying meal en way
14. People watching
15. Listening to audiobooks
16. Going determination other en route
17. Buying a drive-thru java en way
18. Discovering caller places/areas
19. Eating meal en way
20. Watching the rainfall deed the windscreen