The results overwhelmingly indicate that, rather than alleviating the stress and longer hours of commuting in and out of the office, working from home causes work to seep into home life.
The average adult in the U.S. and U.K. watches three to four hours of TV daily, Stamatakis says, and many of us also spend our working lives sitting at a desk andcommuting behind the wheel of a car.
People are becoming less healthy because after working 40 hours a week andcommuting another 30 hours per week, something has got to give and often times it is meal time.
Civil servants in the Philippines have been put on a four-day working week, to save the petrol they use while commutingand the power they consume in their offices.
Working at home, full or part-time, shrinks the number of hours wasted commutingand allows greater flexibility that is often critical to maintaining a family.