Telecommuting as a way to a green world

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Came across this blog on Cisco.com: "Employee commutes, both from the home to the office and then from office to office, and then the ever present flight out to meet customers and ‘hit the field/road’” creates a tremendous cost center and carbon footprint. Some costs the business has to bear, others the employee does. I am not going to be so bold as to advocate permanent telecommuting for all work-types as there have been some efforts in creating work-spaces that are shared by multiple businesses, located along mass transit lines, and that then use collaboration technologies like TelePresence to link them back to the main HQ or Campus locations in the area. The participating companies in many cases then subsidize the mass transit fares for the employee base as well." Paul Marcoux is a founding member of Green Grid, a vendor-led consortium that is developing metrics for measuring energy efficiency within IT ecosystems. Marcoux says "If you can change your employees commuting habits or travel habits, you've really taken pretty big steps there," he said, "bigger steps probably than energy efficiency in your data center." What does Greenwalas think about it.....