Ahmad Yaseen, Fahad Khan, Muhammad Hamad Khalid and Muhammad Wazi2025-10-022025-10-022024https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/7792This study examines the prospective advantages of commuting for aviation professionals, with an emphasis on its function as a buffer between work and personal life. This innovative method reinterprets commuting, which has been traditionally perceived as a source of tension, as a chance for psychological detachment and recovery. The quantitative research conducted on 201 professionals from aviation related to Pakistani airlines and collection of samples employed at airports and different social media platforms. The main focus of data analysis was indicated as mediation analysis that was conducted by using SPSS and SmartPLS4. The results of the research showed that the comprehensive and careful interaction obtained from family improved the psychological detachment of employ during commute that enhances the ability of work recovery. The findings of this study highlighted the consequences of physiological and psychological recovery at commute contributed as the theoretical and practical involvement in the field. The study recommended that the well-being and efficiency of employees improved if they provided with facilities that involved in psychological detachment during the commuting. However, the study generalizability limited by the flexibility on convenience sampling that suggested to research on personal attributes like flexibility and alternative commuting modes. Altogether the research study highlighted the advantages for aviation professional for commute timing and provided with the facilities to balance the work life and mental health experiencing the practices and policies provided by the organization.enDetach to Connect: Using Commute Time as a Buffer between Work and HomeThesis