Scientists at Oxford University have been researching the effects of people who work from home and their effect on the planet; does working from home create more problems? After all it stands to reason that working from home will mean that you are using more electricity for heating, lighting and power for the all the home working environment, whereas if you worked at an office or somewhere, most of that would not be used. Yet on the other hand, traveling to a work place means using transport probably a car or public transport, the workplace needs to be heated, lit and power up all the machinery that is needed, on the face of it, it would appear to be not much in it, but there is.

Even by taking into consideration that working from home uses more power as such, the benefits of having people work from their homes for the planet is better than people traveling to and from workplaces everyday.

In fact the figures have been so clear, that the people behind the report are saying now, that the UK government and I would suppose that applies to all other world governments are guilty of not making the provision of working from home a higher priority in their plans to save the planet, they should be offering more incentives for both companies and employees to at least give the working from home route a try.

The report will be officially released tomorrow which coincidentally just happens to be National Work from Home Day!

Source  [VNUNET]