Divorce Survey: TeamViewer Finds 5 Percent Would Divorce In Order To Telecommute

It's crazy what some people will do for the chance to ditch the office.

According to a new survey by software company TeamViewer, 5 percent of 2,630 Americans polled said they would divorce their spouse if it meant they could stop commuting to the office and instead work from home.

Though the percentage was mostly consistent across age groups and genders, it differed by region: 7 percent of people in the Western United States admitted they'd trade in their spouse for the chance to telecommute, while only 2 percent of Midwesterners felt similarly.

Perhaps these divorce-happy commuters are on to something; In May 2011, a Swedish university found that couples in which one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes a day were 40 percent more likely to divorce.

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Comments

[laterthanyouthink]

04:50 AM on 02/21/2012

Wait ... if they can telecommute why do they have to get a divorce?

How are these related?

"I really love you and the kids, honey, but I was offered this great job writing a divorce column for HuffPo. I even get to telecommute and only show up in person once a month. The only catch is that they insist on someone who has actually been divorced to write the column so ... their attorney even wrote up the papers and did the filing.

Here.

Sorry.

[CSNC]

11:30 PM on 02/20/2012

"Custody Decisions May Be Biased In Favor Of Mothers"

May...?

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[RealistBC]

03:45 PM on 02/18/2012

This study is ridiculous. Few of us workers are allowed to telecommute, and whether or not one has a spouse is hardly the measure by which this is done.

[Baldheaded Fool]

02:54 PM on 02/18/2012

how about working from home and an upgrade to Salma Hayek.

[kilakhan]

03:34 AM on 02/17/2012

wouldnt exchange my wife for anything..even a newer model...this model sits just fine with me!

[laterthanyouthink]

04:54 AM on 02/21/2012

"wouldnt exchange my wife for anything..­even a newer model...th­is model sits just fine with me!"

Lucky guy!

If I told my wife to "sit" she would whack me silly.

[kilakhan]

04:58 AM on 02/22/2012

depends on what she "whacks" you with..LOL

[jokamachi]

11:45 PM on 02/16/2012

I wouldn't trade for anything.

[Mr Anonymous]

09:43 PM on 02/16/2012

Oh the possibilities, but I'm already divorced, so it doesn't really apply anymore.

[yukonsam]

05:32 PM on 02/16/2012

I tried to think of something I would trade my wife for. Telecommuting doesn't make the cut. Saving the Earth from certain destruction might. But once the Earth was saved, I'd probably be looking for an escape clause to get her back.

Since this isn't a comic book, I'm pretty sure the question will never come up.

[MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL]

05:32 PM on 02/16/2012

An Ipad and a blow-up doll?

[CSNC]

11:32 PM on 02/20/2012

MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL,

Multiple choice question?

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