One in five Swedes has two-hour commute
Published: 30 Oct 12 11:58 CET | Print version
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21 percent of Swedes spend more than one hour getting to work, and more than two hours commuting daily, according to new figures released by European job-seeking agency StepStone.
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“Going by public transport can be stressful if you have to make a lot of changes and if it is overcrowded. But if you don’t have to stand up on the bus, some experience it as quite relaxing. It depends how you use the time,” explained Kristoffer Mattisson, a PhD student from the Medical Faculty at Lund University, to the Metro newspaper.
“You lose any time you might otherwise have had for physical activity and for seeing people,” he continued.
The survey revealed that 6.1 percent of Swedes travel more than two hours each way, compared with a 5.4 percent average across the seven European countries that took part in the survey.
Meanwhile, 38.7 percent of Swedes travel for between thirty minutes and one hour each way, and 40.4 percent commute for thirty minutes or less.
The Germans have the shortest commutes, with 44.2 percent travelling less than thirty minutes each day, and the French are most likely to be in transit with 7.0 percent taking more than 2 hours each way.
StepStone linked long commutes with the desire to seek new work opportunities, but warned that commuting can be a real source of stress if people have to spend a significant amount of time travelling every day.
"When a long commute is combined with long working hours, this can be an important factor in making people look for another job,” StepStone CEO Ralf Baumann said in a statement.
The survey included 9,800 respondents from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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2: Build some roads! Stop talking about it. Or make owning a car more expensive.
Usually since I have no problem getting a seat I don\t really mind it since I can sit down and study at the same time.
Don't know about other folks, but to me quality of life has it's price, one which I am willing to pay: no traffic, no pollution, no crime and noise. Besides, I don't earn enough to live in the big city I work in unless I am willing to live in a "closet" instead of a comfortable house, surrounded by beautiful a countryside, wildlife, friendly neighbors and healthy environment.
I sleep in the train in the morning, and work in the evenings.
Ah, the wonderful age of laptops and mobile broadband!
It's a trade-off, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
BTW, it's not the commuting which stresses me out - it's my job!
That said, I think it's only obvious that people who commute longer MAY experience more stress, simply because there's less time left for personal hobbies and such. But yes, it depends on the type of work, whether or not you commute alone, if you can actually relax while commuting, be productive somehow etc etc.