Yes, 10,000 Steps is Very Possible When Working From Home.

Why 10,000 steps is a choice, not a question.

Remote work has become the norm over the past 18 months, and many people are now asking whether it’s possible to get 10,000 steps in working from home.

The pandemic created unforeseen demands on many lives — homeschooling kids, working longer hours to make up for all of the pointless Zoom calls, and numerous distractions.

But how long does it take to get to 10,000 steps exactly? At a standard walking pace, about 90 minutes. That’s a 30-minute walk before work, at lunch, and after work. Far from impossible.

Meanwhile, the pandemic gifted the average person about an hour a day in previous commute time. The average commute in the United States was 52 minutes a day, and in Melbourne, where I live, the average daily commute was 65 minutes.

“But that was reinvested into other important obligations!”, you say?

Fair enough, but please explain how the average American has no problem finding time to watch 28 hours of television a week or four hours of TV a day. Not only that, but the average person nowadays spends several hours a day staring at their smartphone, mostly to scroll Instagram.