Ms. Sanders, 40, recently shocked her firm’s summer interns when she mentioned she could almost always be found in the office on Fridays. “It’s become my most reliable office day, because my drive now is that much easier.”Ms. Sanders is hardly alone in her quest for a Zen commute. On average, drivers in the New York metropolitan area lose about 132 hours per year in traffic, according to a recent survey by CoPilot, a car-buying app. “You’re guaranteed a seat,” said Ms. Gorman, 49. According to to publicly available data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Monday is now the easiest weekday to travel around the metro region.

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