January 21, 2019

According to the NY Times, the “toll” a long commute takes on your health is a cost many do not consider. However, it is critically important as it impacts your life in many ways. Your long frustrating commute leaves you moody, irritable and frustrated, which can extend onto your family and children when you do finally call your commute from work to home completed. The impacts are not only on the others around you, they take their tolls on you too. Your job satisfaction, overall well being, blood pressure and deameanor all take a hit when it comes to enduring long and slow moving commutes up to 5 days a week, 2 times a day, 10 times in 7 days, with little time in between the departure, return and next departure into the sea of cars and trucks at what you hope will be traffic that moves at least 20-30 MPH. The average speed is 35.8 miles an hour but we have all seen the cars that only move inches each minute as they heat up and are closer than one should be to the car in front, behind and to your left and right.

Many have opted to work remotely or use a flex schedule to cut down on the days that they are commuting each week, but if you look at the top 15-50 most popular jobs in America only about 10-15% of them allow this option. The others require you to “be” somewhere to conduct your work, the restaurant, the hotel, the store, the hospital, or the factory and involve service or production that require the people and/or machinery to complete your work.

So what are your options, what can you do? Your skills are limited and you are good at what you do, but you want to reclaim lost hours, money and time not to mention quality of life from a long commute. Well we are here to say there is hope! Through our innovation of JobSwap, we match people with jobs that can be “swapped” with another. Often this can occur even within the same company, large restaurant groups, or store chains for instance.

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