One way to reduce the carbon footprint of business as well as corporate expenses is to get as many workers as possible to telecommute. Just look at Sun Microsystems, where more than half of its 19,000 employees telecommute at least part time as part of its Open Work program. Here's what I wrote in my CIO Insight Editor's Note a few months back:
Having fewer employees working in offices provides real savings to employers. Sun didn’t have to find office space for 7,215 workers in 2006 because of its telecommuting program, saving the company nearly $68 million that year.
Companies that promote telecommuting aid the environment, too. Sun reckons its telecommuting and related programs eliminate nearly 30,000 metric tons of green house gas emissions a year—the equivalent of permanently removing 6,700 cars from the road each year.
Businesses must do more to lessen global warming, so companies should make telecommuting the default work environment, when feasible, and not the exception.
And, don't you think telecommuting will make workers happy?
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