Don’t work (unless you’re getting paid for it)

David Spencer, professor of economics and political economy at the University of Leeds, has crunched the data on working on the commute and generally advises against it, saying any time or effort savings are likely to be illusory. “The encroachment of work into commute time simply extends the length of the working day, for no extra pay,” he says. “If we are to use commute time as work time, a radical step then would be to shorten the working day.”