"How many companies pay their employees to get to work?"
There is these new things called "the internet" and "phones", which, in very many differing instances, permit/required a re-defining of the concept of "office" and or "home office".
How many people, that provide the bulk of what produces their income, [?do what they provide an accounting of the time required to complete, and are provided an income for that time?] that are now able to be considered 'work from home', would be expected to give back to their employer, the amount of time required to commute, particularly if there is some advantage to the employer in not having them commute.

?Can we say it is a negotiable point, but not one 'the company' has any right to expect or demand? And that 'the company' should not be penalized for acknowledging and appreciating as the employee 'going the -extra- mile'.
AND I would say it is considerably different if what you do is use a company supplied vehicle to commute to the same office everyday. In that case it would be getting paid to drive to work, rather than 'being compensated for time the company is paid for, during the travel to the first remote job-site'.