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by enkiv2 2093 days ago
I live about 3 miles from my office (suburbs with 25 mile per hour speed limits the whole way), but because of restrictions on eating at my desk, for the past few years I had been driving home for lunch every day -- in other words, spending 40 minutes a day commuting because the 10-minute drive was repeated 4 times. (I used to occasionally walk into the office & skip lunch, but that was very dependent on the weather, & I couldn't manage that more than twice in a week because I'd get blisters.)

Since the work-from-home order came down, I've gone from driving 40 minutes every weekday to driving perhaps three minutes a week, and rather than refilling my gas tank every two weeks, I haven't had to fill it in about a month and a half.

I've had to go into the office a few times since the coronavirus began -- due to power outages, VPN problems, etc. Most of those times, I walked in.