{"670893":{"#nid":"670893","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Most Americans still have to commute every day. Here\u2019s how that experience has changed.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe average American commute is about 27 minutes. While people in many industries were able to start working from home during the pandemic, recouping their travel time, nearly half of U.S. workers kept devoting a good chunk of their day \u2014 sometimes an hour or more \u2014 to being in transit.\u0026nbsp;Pandemic-era commuting has widened several divides: between those who can work remotely and those who can\u2019t, and between those who drive and those who use public transportation. The decrease in travel by those able to work remotely has changed the nature of commutes for everyone else \u2014 streamlining rush-hour traffic, for example, but making trains run less often. This examination of how commutes have changed over the last three years includes comments from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/christopher-w-wiese\u0022\u003EChristopher Wiese\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe average American commute is about 27 minutes. While people in many industries were able to start working from home during the pandemic, recouping their travel time, nearly half of U.S. workers kept devoting a good chunk of their day \u2014 sometimes an hour or more \u2014 to being in transit.\u0026nbsp;Pandemic-era commuting has widened several divides: between those who can work remotely and those who can\u2019t, and between those who drive and those who use public transportation. The decrease in travel by those able to work remotely has changed the nature of commutes for everyone else \u2014 streamlining rush-hour traffic, for example, but making trains run less often. This examination of how commutes have changed over the last three years includes comments from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/christopher-w-wiese\u0022\u003EChristopher Wiese\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-11-06 14:07:35","changed_gmt":"2023-11-06 14:07:35","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The New York Times","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/11\/06\/business\/economy\/commuting-change-covid.html","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"193240","name":"Christopher Wiese"},{"id":"176911","name":"organizational psychology"},{"id":"180","name":"commute"},{"id":"190847","name":"work from home"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}