Construction workers are spending almost an hour commuting every day, costing the industry £13.1 billion in lost time each year, new research has shown.
Specialist recruiter Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering revealed that workers travel an average 27 miles each way to work, taking them 56 minutes in total and resulting in weekly commuting times of nine hours and 25 minutes.
The research also revealed that commuting time on average would be worth £7,228 per year in added salary which across the UK industry would amount to £13.1 billion every year.
Managing Director of Randstad CPE, Owen Goodhead, believes longer journeys are due to commuters living further from their jobs due to rising house prices in city centres.
“Of course for construction jobs, where workers will always need to travel to projects, some commuting is inevitable,” said Owen.
“Electricians can’t wire the same house twice, and site managers can’t find a site complex enough to last a lifetime. So people in the industry are generally used to living with a commute as a necessary evil – but they could still benefit from reassessing their time.
“Often workers will take into account the direct costs of commuting – such as petrol or train fares – but not the value of their time.
“Travelling to work is inescapable, but at some point employees need to value their own hours as much as any direct costs of getting from A to B.”
Compared to the average UK worker, construction workers commute further and for longer every day while the average UK employee travels 22 miles to work taking 43 minutes.
Read more of the findings here.
Construction workers are spending almost an hour commuting every day, costing the industry £13.1 billion in lost time each year, new research has shown….
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