Americans are “always in a hurry”, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America”, his opus published in 1835. Until the covid-19 pandemic, nowhere was this more evident in recent decades than in packed trains at peak times as people commuted to work.
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Almost 75% of professionals in America say the journey is what they dread most about going back to the office. Working remotely a few days a week
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