wart57 wrote:
Honestly - we need to change the mindset of a lot of businesses.
I could do my entire job from home - that would eliminate 350 miles of travel per week times 48 weeks = 16,800 less miles I need to drive every year.
But, my company thinks for workers to be productive, we need to be stuck in an office all day so they can watch us.
What am I, 12?
(Even in the office I waste way too much time on GRB.)
Imagine how much driving and fuel usage can be saved if we allow more people to work from home?
I think your post is a great idea, more people should work from home. It helps not just in the miles you save but also alleviating congestion which adds to even more carbon being used.
I'm going to make a pretty big leap here but we really need to explore a universal basic income. There are so many people who have jobs that really aren't needed. Scripts and robots can replace a pretty huge portion of our workforce and if all those people didn't have to go to work everyday it would take a lot of stress off the environment.
It's not just the carbon foot print either that would matter. Let's say you got a significant number of people that live in areas were water supply is tight, like the southwest. What is even a quarter of those people that didn't have to go to work everyday didn't have to shower for work? I'm sure it's negligible on a small scale but if you have thousands of people who didn't need that morning coffee on the way to work that would surely move the needle on water usage as well. Seems like it would certainly help with a lot of our environmental issues if people could work from home, work less, or not at all.