Something is typically considered to be a cliché only after being a long established, entrenched truism. Like if you're at the office Keurig machine and say to a coworker, "Man, traffic was hell this morning." Innocuous pleasantries about traffic as a conversation piece is a cliché—but only because it's also fact.
We spend a good deal of time commuting to work in the morning and back home when the clock hits five. In fact, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that remote workers actually save 72 minutes a day on average by not commuting.
