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Return-to-office mandates are just a blip; setting your alarm before sunrise and standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a packed train, just to sit at a desk for eight hours, is going to be a relic of the past. And it’s going to be extinct much sooner than you probably expect.

According to Mark Dixon, CEO of IWG, the world’s largest workspace provider, commuting could be extinct within the next 15 years. Gen Alpha will be so used to pulling out their phones and clocking into work from anywhere convenient, that they’ll find the very idea of commuting into an office as ancient as riding a horse to work, or writing by candlelight before electricity existed.

“In the future, you’re going to explain to your kids that you used to commute,” Dixon told me, adding they’ll think it’s “mad stuff” that bosses once asked their workers to “travel 100 miles to sit down and use a computer.”

“They’ll say, ‘why did you do that?’ Because they won’t understand that people traveled long distances to use a piece of equipment somewhere else. It’s going to change a lot—the workplace of the future is everywhere. And it’ll be very productive,” he added.

“It’ll be just normal to go on your phone and say, ‘where’s the nearest place to work?’ and you go there and work.”

The CEO added that most white-collar work is already online and “in the cloud,” so the very idea that your workspace is physical is outdated. And the kids agree.

Research from IWG and global engineering consultancy Arup has revealed that long daily commutes could be extinct by 2040.

Currently, the average New Yorker spends around 53 minutes on the train to get to the office, with Londoners experiencing a similar trek. But looking ahead, just a quarter of Gen Alpha say they’ll spend more than 30 minutes traveling to work. The majority think even that’s too long, and expect to have the flexibility to work closer to where they live—if not, at home.

A staggering 80% of Gen Alpha, the oldest of whom are 16 years old, believe flexible working will be the norm by 2040. Researchers and tech CEOs consistently agree.

—Orianna Rosa Royle
Success Associate Editor, Fortune

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