Executive assistant Erica Deary lives in Worcester and works in the Seaport. Pre-pandemic, she endured a round-trip commute that was three hours.

And of course she wasn't the only Boston-area worker with a grueling travel schedule before the pandemic.

The average round-trip car commute in the Boston area was 80 minutes, according to a 2019 report, with plenty of people spending more time than that in their vehicles or on public transportation.

Considering this windfall of time — seven hours a week, if you round up — we should be a city of very fit and well-read people who play several instruments and live in immaculate homes. OK, so that didn’t quite happen.

Read the full story at BostonGlobe.com.