{"id":1048,"date":"2019-11-11T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colive.in\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:09:41","slug":"4-reasons-why-you-should-live-close-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colive.com\/blog\/4-reasons-why-you-should-live-close-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons Why You Should Live Close to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever thought about how long your workday is? If you think it starts from the time you reach your office and ends when you leave it, you\u2019re wrong! Won’t it be a great idea if you could live close to work and save a lot of time that you waste in travelling every day?<\/p>\n

Your workday actually starts the minute you leave the house and lasts until you\u2019re back. You may only spend eight or nine hours in the office but once you start taking your commute into consideration, you arrive at a grand total.<\/p>\n

Researches show that Indians travel an average of one and a half hour each way to work. That\u2019s 180 minutes a day, 18 hours a week and 45 days a year. Feel like it\u2019s too much time to be spending in a cramped up car stuck in a suffocating gridlock? We think so too.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 reasons why living near work will make life easier<\/strong><\/p>\n

Improve Personal Health<\/h2>\n

Have you ever had a bad morning that caused a bad day?<\/p>\n

Yep! That\u2019s what happens when you have to battle through loud, slow-moving traffic every day to get to work and back. \u00a0Studies prove that having to go through traffic every day consistently causes a tremendous amount of pressure and stress to the mind and body. This stress may affect your daily activities and dent the effectiveness of the duties you are performing. Chronic stress is also known to cause misunderstandings in personal relationships. Moving to live close to work will not only help reduce this stress but will improve the overall quality of life and personal health by creating work and home life balance and providing more time for relationships.<\/p>\n

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Save Money on Fuel<\/h2>\n

Whether you choose to be mindful about it or not, most working professionals end up spending a fortune on commute and conveyance. What\u2019s the point of working hard and making money if you\u2019re going to splurge massive portions of it just to get to and fro? Living close to work will not only save you time but will save you money that you could be using for something more important. \u00a0It can also pave the way to a healthier life by making it possible to walk to work every day.<\/p>\n

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Become a Better Employee<\/h2>\n

If you are in top management, you would understand the pain of seeing your employees coming in an hour late every day and packing up at the stroke of the clock. No management likes an ineffective and unpunctual resource. By shifting and living close to work, you will not only be able to get to your meetings on time but will also be able to concentrate more on your daily tasks and be a better employee.<\/p>\n

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Reduce Pollution<\/h2>\n

The conversation of making the world a better place for future generations is becoming louder every day even though most of us have no idea how we could contribute effectively. By moving closer to work and minimising the usage of private transportation, we could reduce the number of vehicles on the street and ultimately the pollution caused by them.<\/p>\n

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Out of the three major resources of our lifetime- Time, Money and Energy, time is said to be the most important because once you lose it, you can never retrieve it. A resource that valuable shouldn\u2019t be treated less and splurged on unproductive activities. \u00a0In a city like Bangalore, living near work can prove to be an effective step to reduce stress, manage time more efficiently and also to make more time for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Here are a few things you could be doing instead of fighting the traffic every day if you lived at Colive\u2019s iconic Signature Towers.<\/p>\n