Amid calls by corporations for workers to return to the office, a new study found that commuting costs are the biggest obstacle to achieving that goal.
A poll by global recruitment and staffing firm Robert Walters found that return-to-office mandates are creating a “travel rift” between employers and workers due to transportation costs, with 60 percent of U.S. professionals citing commuting expenses as the most crucial cost to have subsidized by their employers.
“A significant number of employees moved to more affordable homes in the suburbs during the pandemic,” California career coach Kyle Elliott told The Epoch Times. “With [return-to-office] mandates, they’re now asking themselves whether they want to make the lengthy—and costly—commute back into the city.”…