Alex Ogden remembers always being in a rush. Rushing to get ready for work and take care of her dog after waking up at 6 a.m. Rushing out of her home in D.C. to the Metro station. Rushing to catch a crowded train jam-packed with other harried commuters. Rushing off the train and hustling through the city streets on foot to her final destination: the office.
“There were a lot of times where I would arrive at my workplace already stressed out, and I hadn’t even started my work day, because the commute had been awful,” said Ogden, 34, who has been able to do her nonprofit job remotely. “Even before the pandemic, I found my commute to be sort of a soul-sucking experience.”
Now, “I’m arriving at ‘work’ kind of relaxed and ready for my day as opposed to stressed out because I was on this 45-minute odyssey to get to my office,” she added, noting that train delays or rush hour would increase her travel time to an hour or more. “Thinking about voluntarily going back to that is very demoralizing.”
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