{"id":1057,"date":"2015-11-10T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:04:59","slug":"tuc-number-of-two-hour-commutes-grows-due-to-soaring-house-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/tuc-number-of-two-hour-commutes-grows-due-to-soaring-house-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"TUC: number of two-hour commutes grows due to \u2018soaring house prices\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to rising UK house prices and rents, a growing number of employees cannot afford to live near their place of work, according to the TUC.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall, there has been a 72 per cent rise in people travelling for two hours or more every day so they can commute to and from work, over the course of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Official figures indicate that an estimated three million people now incorporate a journey of two hours or more as part of their working day.<\/p>\n<p>The financial crisis of 2008 started the trend for people travelling longer in order to find a job or keep an existing one, and the TUC has highlighted that a lack of investment in public transport and roads during the subsequent years has actually added to overall journey times.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2004, there has been a 131 per cent rise in the number of women travelling for three hours or more every day, which is the biggest change in the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, approximately 880,000 people complete a daily commute of three hours or more for work purposes, which represents an increase of 380,000 from the figure recorded a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Across the regions that had seen the greatest increase in those undertaking long commutes were the South East, South West, East Midlands and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The services sector remains to be a strong performer for the UK economy, but there has been a 167 per cent jump in the sector\u2019s workers that commute for three hours or more every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to rising UK house prices and rents, a growing number of employees cannot afford to live near their place of work, according to the TUC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}