Miscellaneous Monday - Commuting Styles

[Andy Gladstone]

Happy Monday Morning (or afternoon, and even evening wherever you may be in this wonderful orb orbiting the Sun)! And Happy Diwali to all of those that are celebrating!

One of the lessons of Diwali that I can always relate to is that it only takes one candle to light hundreds of others. Let's emulate principle in the community this week (as we always do). I'm actually a bit surprised that this is attributed to Tolstoy:

But this is not MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY, it's Miscellaneous Monday! 

I was thinking of a post during my commute today, and it hit me like the light of a thousand candles 🕯🕯🕯🕯 - we need a post about commuting 🚅🚌🚗🚲🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️. And since you know I love data, and especially data that can be charted and graphed, here is today's miscellaneously managed mischief!

Please provide your responses in the form of a list, with each response corresponding to one of the headings below:

1. Commuting Style

• WFH

• Mass Transit

• Carpool

• Car

• Walk

• Bicycle

• Other

2. Commute Time

• WFH (no commute time other than changing clothes, if you even do that anymore)

• 0-30 minutes

• 30-60 minutes

• 60-90 minutes

• 90 minutes +

3. Commute Productivity

This should be a free form answer. Do you listen to podcast? Catch up on email? Read a book? Curse under your breath at the traffic? Pretend you are driving a car in Mario Kart? Any combination of the above or other activities?

Gifs not required, but encouraged!

Have a great hour, day and week ahead!

[tsmith]

[Hybrid, 30-60, On wfh days, commute time = a little longer dog walk + morning podcasts+ warm breakfast. On onsite days, I make a smoothie for the road and try to enjoy the sunrise and some good tunes to get jazzed up and ready for the day.]

[Andy Gladstone]

Either way sounds like a great start to the day!

[Srinatha T]

I mostly do WFH most of the time. But I go once a week and I use cab. In the cab, i finish off my tasks and I listen to audio books, recently "the-stories-of-mahabharata" have been my favourite. Its available on amazon prime.

[Andy Gladstone]

Unless of course the cab driver is lonely and wants to strike up a conversation... 

Some of the strangest conversations I have ever had were with NYC Taxi and Uber drivers. Sometimes the stories they tell me make me want to decontaminate myself when I get up from the seat.

[Srinatha T]

Yes. Thats true. 

[Jack Brickey]

1. WFH (semi-retired)
2. 20m (i'm slow)
3. Answering Community posts over coffee

[Andy Gladstone]

That 20 minutes sets the tone for the day, it's not SLOW its METHODICAL!

[Summer Hogan]

Commuting Style

• WFH - that is me below in the gif...always asking my cat to get down off my desk! 

2. Commute Time

• WFH (no commute time other than taking a shower, getting coffee and walking down the hallway to my office)

3. Commute Productivity

I don't commute, but I do listen to music when I drive other places.

[Andy Gladstone]

Glad that you still take your personal hygiene seriously without the peer pressure of being in an office with other humans. Although, cats do have a sixth sense themselves...

[Johanna Pichotka_APTIS_]

Commuting style 

• WFH
• Car (Only when going to the office once every two months) 

Commute Time 

• WFH (so none other than getting dressed and taking the occasional shower if needed) 
• 10min 

Commute Productivity 

I don't commute now but when I do drive to the office to pick up stuff I just listen to music and potentially sing as loud as possible if the songs are good.

That's me while driving :) 

[Andy Gladstone]

With that movement the car must be only making left hand turns all day long. I generally sing at the top of my lungs while white knuckling the steering wheel at 2 and 10.

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Commuting style 

• WFH
• Taxi/Plane (Only when going to the office, which is in Sydney Australia) 

Commute Time 

• WFH  
• schoolday: 2 hours due to having 4 kids who need to get ready and get to school :)  
• office: 30 hours due to it being at the other side of the planet.

Commute Productivity 

• Listening to Blinks in the Blinkist app
• Or spending time with the kids

[Andy Gladstone]

Wow. My kids are older now, and my wife mostly handled the morning prep for school duties all of the years of their youth, but those 2 hours in the morning is like a full day of work before even getting to work.

[Andy Gladstone]

1. Commuting Style

• Mass Transit
• Bicycle
  • Long Island Rail Road -> CitiBike -> Office

2. Commute Time

• 30-60 minutes
  • 65 minutes with all of the above in good weather, 75 when spotty.

3. Commute Productivity

• Podcasts - The Cycling Podcast is one of my favorites!
• Music - I have an amazing YouTube Music mix of Film Score music, and when I am feeling nostalgic I queue up my 1990-1996 grunge/metal/rock list.
• Email - always digging out of avalanche of emails!
• Atlassian Community Posts!

[Trudy Claspill]

1. WFH

2. 30-60 minutes (because I am not a morning person it takes me that long to become "civilized")

3. Answering posts on the Atlassian Community (because that is what I do before I start my "real" job).

Before I worked from home I used to like to walk to the bus stop (20 mins) and ride the bus (40 mins) instead of driving, so I could read books during my commute.

[Jimmy Seddon]

This is an amazing post @Andy Gladstone!

I'm sorry I'm late here.  Let's see what I can add:

Commuting Style:

WFH / Car on the odd days I need to go into the office.

Commute Time:

None when working from home/ 30 mins. when I head to the office

Commute Productivity:

Ok this is going to be an interesting one.

While I'm Working form Home - I simply dive into things and I walk away when I'm done for the day.

When I'm driving I enjoy listening to talk radio in the morning (something with current local news), on the way home I like listening to classic rock music to unwind from the day.

On the SUPER rare occasion I'm going to Toronto on the train, I will start checking email and slack on my way there in the morning, and I play mobile games on my phone on the way home to unwind.

[Andy Gladstone]

@Jimmy Seddon you can never be late to the party. It only starts once you arrive! Thanks for adding your comment. Summary post coming soon. 

[vikram]

Happy Deewali @Andy Gladstone and Thanks for bring Deewali festival to this motivational conversation. 

I prefer WFH, so I do not get the other 2 questions.

Vikram P

[Benjamin]

1. Commuting Style - WFH

2. Commute Time - WFH (no commute time other than changing clothes, if you even do that anymore)

3. Commute Productivity - Able to start early and end early. Used that time I usually would commute to workout and spend more time with my kids.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Commuting Style: WFH for the last two year

Commute Time: WFH for the last two year

Commute Productivity: WFH so nothing.

But WHEN I used to commute to my old work the answers would be:

Commuting Style: Walk

Commute Time: 5-7 mins

Commute Productivity: Nothing really productive. Just thinking all the pile of work I had to do as a PM..

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

After covid-19 periodo all is changed on my side :

Commuting Style: WFH

Commute Time: WFH 

Commute Productivity: WFH

[Rilwan Ahmed]

1. Commuting Style

• WFH

• Other - Motor Cycle

2. Commute Time

• 0-30 minutes

3. Commute Productivity

 Curse under your breath at the traffic

[Brant Schroeder]

1. Commuting Style

• WFH

• Other - Motor Cycle in the summer when I go into the office.

2. Commute Time

• 0-30 minutes

3. Commute Productivity

• My drive is beautiful so I enjoy the ride.

[Dave Mathijs]

1. Commuting Style

• WFH (1-2 days a week)

• Car (when working at the office)

• Car + Train (when commuting to clients)

2. Commute Time

• WFH: 0 minutes

• Car: 30-60 minutes

• Car + Train: 90 minutes +

3. Commute Productivity

• I listen to Spotify Playlists, my favourite genres depending on the mood, varying from rock, metal, to dance, trance and progressive house.

[vikram]

I like Work from home by that I can save 2 hours to commute to office 

[Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket]]

Commuting Style

• Semi WFH

Commute Time

• 30-60 minutes

Commute Productivity

• Reading books

[Deepak Rai]

While Commuting in evening beautiful view but traffic sucks!! 

[tsmith]

The evening view is very pretty from far away! I can imagine it's far less fun and lovely when you're part of the sea of lights.

[Jonathan V.]

Hi, for me, this is a mixed response, as I have a hybrid approach right now.

Commuting Style

• WFH
• Car

Commute Time

• WFH
• 0-30 minutes

Commute Productivity

When I drive into work, it's very short, but I am able catch-up on some of my podcasts, or even think through an issue or project that I'm working on.

[Jospeh blessing]

commuting style

*WFH

*car

commute time

*0-40

[Max Foerster - K15t]

1. Commuting Style

• Mass Transit

2. Commute Time

• 0-30 minutes (good half an hour door-to-door if everything runs smoothly)

3. Commute Productivity

On my way to the co-working space in the morning, I listen to a science news podcast on Spotify. It's always varied and interesting with short 4-6 minute episodes. On the way home, I usually listen to music or other podcasts while browsing various news apps.

[Houssein Barkallah]

As my wife says, I enjoy commuting, XD so here it goes:

Commuting Style

• carpooling

Commute Time

• 0-30 minutes

Commute Productivity

• Always working in the office, even though we have a hybrid regime.

[Ronald Hipol]

1. 100% WFH
2. no commute time, jumps right into the laptop from waking up
3. not even breakfast :-D

[Heydi Menéndez]

Hi again!!

Here are my answers:

1-WFH

2-WFH

3- Sometimes when I have to go to the office I read messages from Teams , or spend times answering mails. As soon as i´m not driving. Cause when I am , I just play the radio music and hope to get safe to the point B.