Remote work is harder to find if you are part of underrepresented communities
, a non-profit that helps identifies ways that people can make their commutes and life in the city better. The survey polled more than 64,000 commuters.
“There’s a positive correlation between availability and adoption of remote working income levels,” Ashour said. “With education, the higher degree that you have, your chances of working remotely are higher.” “There are definitely correlations that lead into another, but we would have to go deeper to draw a causal effect,” she said. “So for example, they could be also members with lower income. And that translates into the nature of their work or the worksite that they work with.”In other poll findings, time, flexibility, and cost are the three most critical factors for general commute mode choice.
About 60% of the city center’s 320,000 workers were commuting to their jobs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and a majority on Thursdays.“We know that on average car ownership in Washington state costs the average person over $10,000. A year of transit passes only about $1,200 a year,” Hovenkotter said. “And that’s even less if your employer subsidizes it for you.
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