Commuting is a ‘liminal space’ where you can ‘psychologically recover’ from work

I for one, use the 30 or so minutes on a single-lane highway to prepare for or decompress from work. Driving can be mindless because I avoid multi-lane highways and I get home in a good place mentally.

I had, like lots of people, a 0-minute commute during the pandemic and found I needed some alone-time to decompress before joining the rest of the family

Eh, I personally started to toy with the idea of tracking corporate framing of WFH/RTO phenomenon. This is the 3rd time I can count without checking, where 'commute' is attempted to be reframed as some sort of benefit to the user ( 'me time', 'meditation' and now this ).

I am annoyed by this, because I know it is corporate propaganda. I know it is written with engagement in mind ( and it does get that ). The part that really gets me is how little the authors clearly think of people who read this.

To me, this is equivalent of telling me that drinking urine actually extends life span. To an average person, it just seems somewhat unlikely.

And this is not a personal blog. There is a company standing behind it.