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For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7% of workers spending two hours or more on the road. Many people think of commuting as a…

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Americans who are working from home have reclaimed 60 million hours that they used to spend commuting to an office each day. They’re now using that time to get more sleep instead. That’s the takeaway from a research by the Federal Reserve…

Credit: Tier 1 Engineering, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Electric air taxis could one day whisk commuters from downtown Chicago to…

Philanthropist Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California.Tiffany Rose | Getty ImagesA highly unusual move by the Justice…

Britain’s love for green fingers and blackened thumbs during the first Covid lockdown has since evaporated as people again find a “new normal” after the ending of restrictions, a survey suggests.The amount of time people spent gardening…

DETROIT (AP) — High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career.Reid, who drives for Uber and Lyft in New York, fills up his Lexus at least three times a week. He pays around $95 each time, about double what he…

Many renters believe that a cost-of-living crisis is brewing in America's major cities.New York City is showing up as a hotspot of rent inflation. The average rent for 1-bedroom apartments in Manhattan rose to $3,995 a month in May 2022 — a…

When the news broke that masks would no longer be required in the office, friends reacted with a mixture of dread and cautious optimism to the idea of returning to the workplace. No-one was elated after two years in captivity.“There are…

Cardiologists carry out a procedure on a patient at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England, on March 17, 2021.Joe Giddens | PA Images | Getty ImagesDoctors and healthcare workers in the U.K. could be put up in hotels to ensure…