My friend Trev sent me this link this week, it's pretty cool, if you're a fan of pouring over all kinds of useless facts (I'm thinking of you Chris and Will)

Anyway, an interesting fact about commuting time (I've highlighted the bits that surprised me);

Commuting time is a measure of how long people spend travelling to work, by whatever means. It could be by foot, bus, car, boat, train, bicycle or other means. The world average commuting time is 40 minutes, one-way. This is the average for people that work.
In Thailand, with the longest commuting times in the world, a total of 37 million hours is spent travelling to work everyday. If this number is doubled the total time commuting each day in Thailand can be calculated. The average working person living in Thailand spends 2 hours everyday travelling to and from work.
The shortest journeys to work are in Malawi, taking just 2 minutes.

My friend Bren lives and works in Thailand at the moment. He lives in the building where he works (it's a big high-rise hospital of sorts I think). Takes him a few minutes to get to work. Sounds like he's one of the lucky ones.