[esquire]

Just eliminating the commute adds time to one's day for sleep, exercise, gardening, watching professional gamers on Youtube or whatever floats one's boat. Even if you just have a 15 minute walk to and from work that's still an extra half an hour a day. Plus less time getting ready... business clothes are replaced with a t-shirt these days, and I haven't shaved in over a month. So it all adds up.

Personally I think this could be OK from an urbanist perspective. It could make our cities a little less like Calgary where you have a very dense central sea office of office towers surrounded by surburbia, and more like Copenhagen where you have a collection of complete neighbourhoods scattered throughout the city. Obviously the change won't happen overnight, but perhaps we might start seeing some changes... maybe suburban neighbourhoods might have a couple of grocers and cafes on their quiet streets instead of forcing everyone to the ugly, car-dominated arterials on their peripheries.