With the morning commute but an increasingly faint memory for the new legions of remote workers, in June alone, Americans have driven 37 billion fewer miles compared to June of  last year, said CNN Business, based on information from the Federal Highway Administration. With the earth roughly 93 million miles away from the sun, that's enough to make the trip 397 times; if you decided to go to Pluto instead, you'd be able to make five round trips. To give a further sense of scale, though, you would still be far short of what it would take to reach Proxima Centauri B, earth's closest neighbor.

With roads far emptier than before, workers are collectively saving about $758 million per day, when one accounts for items such as gas, maintenance, tolls and fees. CNN noted, though, that the biggest benefit is not necessarily money but time, with the rise of telework adding an average of 54 minutes of peace to people's days (the average commute time last year). Yet, CNN added, these savings have a downside as well: It's money that people are not spending on the goods and services that cater to commuters, such as that coffee shop you used to stop at each morning, or the gas station you'd always stop at to fill up on the way back from work.