Time
How long does it take you to get to work? A longer commute has been proven to higher worry levels. The minute you step into your car, your work day begins. You are thinking about getting to work and what you have in store for the day. Although I try to distract myself from this by playing my iPod, I too find myself already stressing by the time I arrive to work.
The further away you live from your job, the earlier you have to leave your house and the later you return back home. This means less time being at home altogether to do other things, such as paying bills, cooking dinner, being with family or friends, or even trying to do that word called "relaxing" that is often times forgotten about during the work week.
Money
If you are driving more, you are using more gas, which costs more money, which comes out of your paycheck. The shorter the commute, the more money in your pocket not just for gas, but also for the less work that will need to be done on your car for maintenance of all the mileage.
Weather
I have been living in New Hampshire for twenty years and I know winter traveling is never fun. Snow, ice, freezing rain, wind, and freezing weather makes for a very uncomfortable ride. I do not like driving in this unless I absolutely have to. This is another added stress factor and actually can add travel time to your work commute. This is less of a worry if you are relatively close to your job.
Where the building location is actually has a direct impact on how successful the company is. Whatever kind of business it is, it needs to have a prime location in order to conduct strong business. Is it desolate, or in the middle of the city? What is the traffic flow? The more successful your company is, the more successful you will be.
Do keep in mind, however, you cannot relocate a business (unless you are the owner), but you can relocate yourself. Being a recent college graduate, I knew when job searching that I would have to focus my search around where I am living since I currently am not at a state to financially be able to relocate myself. Keeping a short commute around where I am living was not easy, however, but location was something important to me for all of the reasons listed above. I have been saving up my paycheck as best as possible to hopefully soon be able to relocate myself even closer to the work place to shorten my commute even more and in turn increase my success and productivity.
Do you commute far to and from work? How do you feel about it?