When I started work  ,nearly six years ago,  my commute time from  door to door in both directions averaged 25 minutes.  Today it's double that unless I come in heroically early < 0630  or stay  till 1830.  Gas prices are double than when I started  and the sitting in traffic  kills the mpg from the high 20's low 30's I traditionally had to the low 20's.     It's inefficient I can't  carry our anything worthwhile  related to work while driving.  90 minutes a day , 7.5 hrs a week   x 50 weeks  = 375 hours  or about six weeks a year when you divide that by 8 hours in a workday.  That's six fricking weeks , more than my vacation time spent idly and expensively hoping to  find someone that's going to amuse me with a quip on their bumper  that I've not seen 100x before.  Multiply that by hundreds of people   ... Seems like a waste of capital and that's before  you think about how much talent you miss out on by being on the "wrong side" of a commuting problem.