Increased Commute Time Decreases Employees' Happiness
As per a recent study conducted by Tracking Happiness, the employees seem to be less happy when it takes more time to commute to work.
The survey stated that more than 25% of employees travel less than 10 minutes to commute to work. About 15% travel less than an hour, whereas 10% travel for less than 50 minutes to reach their workplace. About 2% of the employees travel less than 90 minutes to work. The average travel as per the survey comes to 40 minutes. The data provided is for the one-way commute to work.
A negative correlation is evident after the comparison between commute times and average employee happiness scores. The data revealed that the employees' happiness decreases if the commuting time is more.
The study even revealed that the average happiness scores remained relatively stable when the commute time is less than an hour. However, if the commuting time exceeded over an hour, then the happiness scores fell drastically.
Another declaration of the survey states that remote work arrangement makes the Millennials happiest. The survey included responses from 12,455 respondents, and most of the young people from them appeared to be happy with the remote working arrangement.
The study revealed that millennials who were allowed to spend an extra day working remotely seem to show signs of increased happiness by 4% at the workplace.
The data even revealed that the youngest and oldest generations are the happiest at work. The study even concludes that the return of the work from office set up after two years of work from home has reduced the happiness of the employees.
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