[SomaticPirate]

Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.

[lotsofpulp]

Marginal cost of an hour increases with each hour, at increasing rates.

If the extra time spent is causing one to lose sleep/exercise/time with kids/hobby time, I could see it being worth quite a bit more than a standard work hour.

There is also morbidity and mortality risk of commuting and commuting costs to take into account. In a car, I would put that lower bound at $0.50 per minute.

[soganess]

((72*260)/60)/24 = 13

That is 13 full days of time per year. That is a vacation. Or a long training course to learn a new skill. An hour+ a day to hang out with your kid or friends or dog or laptop or car.