"Commute" in European languages?

[Prof. Peter Lucko]

> "Commute" in European languages?
> The fellow who coined the term "telecommuting" in 1973 has told me that in
> the early 80s he started using the word "telework," instead, because most
> European languages didn't have an equivalent for the verb "commute" (in the
> sense of to travel regularly to and from one's place of work). This seems
> surprising since this sense of "commute" has been in the English language
> for over a hundred years. Does his assertion seem plausible?
>
>

German has "pendeln", from the swing of the pendulum, with commuters being "Pendler", or sometimes - a little bit more explicit - "Berufspendler".
P. Lucko