Should workers get paid for their commute?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic changed how we work and how we think about commuting. Workers are now more likely to see the daily commute as part of their workday. Should employers compensate for time spent getting to work? Christopher Wiese and Laurens Steed join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:28.6 | slash enhance. My day typically starts about 3.30 in a morning. |
| 0:34.0 | I normally have to get up, get ready. I do have eight dollars, so I have to make sure everyone is at least fed. I'll leave out the house. I'll say about |
| 0:47.5 | 4.25 I have to get to work and I have no other choice on how to get to work. Do I like the commute? No, but is it something? Do you always like everything that you have to do? No. |
| 1:01.0 | No. |
| 1:02.0 | This is on point. I'm Magna Chocro Bardi and this is Adara |
| 1:06.8 | Benjamin. She's 29 years old and works as a home health care aide lives on |
| 1:11.8 | Chicago South Side and this is the story of her |
| 1:15.0 | daily commute. So my first bus is normally maybe like a 10 15 minute wait for |
| 1:21.8 | the bus in general and then there's about a 15-20-minute commute to the second route. |
| 1:30.0 | After that we'll get there about an hour 45 minutes everything |
| 1:33.4 | times out I'll be getting on within five minutes if not we'll be waiting another |
| 1:37.6 | 25 minutes that second ride normally takes about an hour 45 minutes to an hour depending on how the bus driver drives. |
| 1:46.0 | So we're looking at an hour in 30, maybe an hour 45 minute commute depending on the day, |
| 1:52.2 | temperature, feelings of the drivers. |
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