Are you a telecommuter? If not, have you ever tried to talk you boss into letting you telecommute to save time, money, energy, gas, etc?
Those have been the long-touted reasons for everything from a single person to an entire office to cut the commutes and begin working from home...but according to a new study by UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology, they could all be a farce.
Inhabitat says,
According to the study, working from home can increase home energy use up to 30%. Worse still, the option to telecommute causes many workers to move further from the office, increasing their carbon emissions when they do go into the office.
But online shopping isn’t all bad. If 25 orders or more are placed at the same time, online shopping becomes less carbon intensive than the in-person variety. That’s a lot of shopping however, and most online orders are significantly smaller than that.
Do you buy it?
[Photo: el clinto/Flickr; Source: Science Daily]
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