[shearnie]

I'm currently working remote and took the job over an on-premises gig in the big smoke.

It's a 200 pay cut per day.

However factoring in expenses in fuel and parking and car wear, and the 10 hours of time lost commuting per week. I'm counter-intuitively better off by the equivalent 200 per day.

Reason being my time spent NOT commuting is invested in my bootstrapped startup. If I had to commute, I was essentially earning money by sitting in traffic rather than coding, which had to be spent to an offshore developer while I'm in a car instead of at my machine. So that including expenses in commuting will erode my net income. Not to mention the stress and health and mental performance impact commuting does to you. Sitting in traffic, cognitively processing the driving, finding a car park, walking ten minutes from a car park to premises.

My motivation and energy is sapped by the time I'm in the office. And more so by the time I get home.

Prior to this I was doing the commute to make sure the boss sees me gig for a year and compared to now, the difference in performance I notice is remarkable.

[timje1]

I can't remember the exact details, but I remember there being a British study that found that cutting an hour a day off your commute increases your happiness more than a ~30% payrise (figures misremembered).

If you've gotten back two hours a day, that's a massive quality of life improvement!