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For me it was when I had location services disabled on my phone and Android _still_ popped up a notification about the commute time between my home and work, as I was walking out the door.

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At the risk of venturing off the topic of the main thread... Could that behaviour possibly be explained by timing rather than location? My Android gives me commute data around 7:30AM, regardless of where I am or whether I'm moving. Perhaps they simply guessed you'd be at home.

“Google has confirmed it has been able to track the location of Android users via the addresses of local mobile phone masts, even when location services were turned off and the sim cards removed to protect privacy.”[1]

Not saying that’s what happened here, but with Google these days I’ll assume evil[2] instead of giving the benefit of the doubt.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/22/google-tr...

[2]: http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2014/06/0...

Not just timing... but you're connected to "CompanyWiFi" and it's the end of the business day when you usually disconnect your charging cable/leave. There are many signals they could use to show that

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