Travelling Just 15 Minutes To Work Costs Commuters An Average of £2,250 Per Year
Posted: Tuesday 31 March, 2009
Job-Job.co.uk, the recruitment search-engine, has today launched with a new Commuter Watch service to help the working population across the UK to understand the real cost of their daily travel to work, in terms of carbon emissions, personal finance and time-spent away from home each year.
The Commuter Watch estimates that a 15 minute journey to work is equivalent to £2,250 from a salary in gross terms, 5.6 trees and 4.6 days of travel per annum.
Although flexible working hours and the occasional day spent working from home are growing trends which are becoming increasingly prevalent across much of Britain, for the majority of employees there remains a strong need to be at the office most of the time - in order to maximise productivity.
With more traffic on British roads than ever before, estimates are that if recent trends continue, by 2025 congestion and traffic will waste around £22 billion worth of time in England alone each year as commuters are delayed en route to work.
Co-founder of Job-Job.co.uk, Ian Brooks commented that: "Many commuters have no idea how much they are actually spending on daily travel costs alone and the reality is staggering. For example, the national average commute to work is a car journey of 8.7 miles, costing around £2250.00 over an annual period. Job-Job.co.uk has launched the Commuter Watch in order to help alert people to their costly commute and subsequently encourage them to make a change for the better."
As the recession deepens, an increasing number of workers are looking for ways to save money wherever possible and consequently, the shock of seeing an average yearly spend on fuel costs alone is provoking many long distance commuters to search for a closer-to-home occupation in a bid to save time and money.
The benefits of a shorter commute include more time spent at home and less spent on expensive fuel costs. The Commuter Watch is made easier to understand with the integration of Google Maps - an easy to use function allowing users to search for jobs by location.
Job-Job.co.uk is an online recruitment aid providing job seekers access to over 200,000 jobs across different sectors. The site obtains data from screen scrapes, RSS feeds and other online information sources, such as The Guardian Jobs, Gumtree, Jobsearch, and Mad.co.uk to create comprehensive job listings from over 4,000 companies.
Job-Job.co.uk makes job searching online simple and fast, enabling users to search for jobs by sector, title, skill set and location, thereby encouraging job seekers to explore their potentially transferrable skills and opening the door to the broadest possible sweep of opportunities.
Calculate your own personal spend by visiting http://www.job-job.co.uk/commuterwatch/ or, for more information, visit Job-Job at www.job-job.co.uk.
