If you have a spare room, live near to an area of good employment, and are looking for ways of generating some income (or simply want some company), you may be considering taking a lodger. However if you occasionally need to use your spare room, want your home to yourself sometimes and don’t like the idea of a permanent lodger, then consider letting a room for weekdays only.

If you are currently commuting long distances, weekly commuting or overseas commuting, or contemplating any of these, consider renting from Monday to Friday.

Mark Jones had been trying to find a Monday to Friday lodger for many months with no success until he advertised on the yours2share website.

Weekday lodgings are increasingly popular with people working away from home or as an alternative to a lengthy commute. Here are the current Monday to Friday listings.

If you have employees who are working away from home or commuting long distance, then you might be interested to know about Monday to Friday lettings. Weekday lodgings are increasingly popular with people working away from home or as an alternative to a lengthy commute.

Weekday lodgings are increasingly popular with people working away from home or as an alternative to a lengthy commute. So how do the actual costs of commuting compare with a weekday letting? Below we’ve worked out the comparative costs for two relatively common long distance commutes: Bristol to London and Norwich to London.

Twenty-five million people in the UK commute to and from their place of work. Four million people now work from home and this trend is likely to continue. However, long distance commuting (i.e. above 50 miles a day) is also increasing. In the UK the average commuter travels for 58 minutes a day and one in ten commuters have a daily journey of over two hours. ‘Extreme commuters’, who travel at least three hours per day, account for 3% of all commuters.