Posted on 05/05/2022 7:13:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - Tech and financial companies leading efforts to cut climate changing emissions are finding a new challenge from remote work: the CO2 spewing out of home offices.
A few companies have begun counting what happens when employees boot up computers at home, turn up gas furnaces and ignore the world's most energy-efficient corporate campuses. It turns out that home setups popularized by the pandemic are eroding some of the climate benefit of abandoned commutes.
“Emissions didn't go away," said Amanda von Almen, head of emissions reduction at Salesforce.com Inc. "They just shifted to another area."
Half of 20 big companies Reuters spoke to, including Salesforce, have estimated emissions from home offices.
Six of those reported detailed figures, showing their half a million workers collectively emitted the equivalent of 134,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in about the first year of the pandemic. That is equivalent to consuming 15 million gallons of gasoline or burning 67,000 tonnes of coal.
While there are benefits to the climate from millions of employees not commuting when they work from home, the findings underscore that remote work is not a simple solution to cutting corporate emissions.
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>>If it worked for two years, why change?
It worked for *some* people. My experience is that productivity has gone way, way down in some companies.
Highly motivated/self-organizing people can work from home - when you let slackers work from home, next to nothing gets done, except watching lots of netflix or playing video games.
I have had to fire so many people who just couldn’t figure out how to get their work done when no one was watching.
But really, whether the wood rots in the forest or burns in my stove, it's emitting the same amount of carbon.
Well, if everyone works from home there is no commuter traffic, which is what the Left has a goal. Workers can ride their stationary bikes “at” work now.
As they pointed out, you would then have the carbon emissions from commuting.
The only real solution I see is to force people, and their families, to move into the office. You could then be available for work 24/7. The office building is more energy efficient. You eliminate commuting and you can get rid of all those inefficient single family homes. Children can live in large creches where they can be indoctrinated. It would be utopia.
agreed. a friend works in NYC, she’s been required to go to the office for over a year now....it’s become a a filty, dangerous 3rd world $shithole and she quit because of it.
When allowing most of their office workers to work from home, companies are faced with the expense of maintaining office space and furnishings for all of their workers.
If a company continues to allows work at home, there may be financial pressure to downsize the unused office space.
In addition, some companies, where interaction with customers involves paperwork that eventually goes to a third party, now put a burden on the customer to receive files over the internet, and then print out such forms on the customer’s printer, with the customer carrying the forms to the third party.
In the USA Carbon emission have fallen by 20%.
This is all BS!
Amanda is a real rocket surgeon. The nerve of those wascally employees heating and cooling their homes!
Are they deducting the reduced automobile emissions due to lack of driving? How about the reduction in emissions from dry cleaners due to reduction in wearing business clothes and reduction in restaurants’ emissions due to reduction in business people eating lunch at restaurants? Want to to continue Libs? I can go all day.......
These people are friggin’ jokes. This is why I can get too worked up about the latest conspiracy theories. The elite left is populated with so many idiots that they can’t even stick to a coherent narrative for 45 seconds, let alone take over the world.
First world fake problems.
“the CO2 spewing out of home offices“
No comment needed.
Resources required to manufacture them must not matter either. One tesla battery facility east of Reno has lots of employees that make a 40 or 50 mile round trip daily. But, there are busses available if you like.
>> Reuters — a new climate challenge
A false premise
Remember the scene in Hunt for Red October, where Jack Ryan is trying to figure out how to get the crew of the Russian sub to WANT to abandon her, so the Captain and co-conspirators can hand it over to the Americans? They fake a leak in the sub's nuclear reactor, and the crew scrambles to escape.
Similarly, the woke corporations, with their legion of woke employees, created a mess. They coddled the employees throughout the Covid pandemic, and sent them all home to work. Now they're faced with having to force them back to the offices so they can be supervised and accountable. Well if we know anything about the woke-class workers, they will NOT be told what to do. So the corporations need to conjure up a reason for them to WANT to go back to the offices. Enter ACC - anthropogenic climate change. They are literally going to guilt them into return to the office, to "save the planet".
Pass the popcorn! This could get good!
Ah, the mandatory daily climate porn.
Awaiting the mandatory daily COVID porn.
And the mandatory “we can’t have free speech” porn.
And now, the new mandatory abortion porn.
Celebrate! Fire up the generator; stuff another log and a piece of coal in the wood-stove. Or if its warm out have a big bonfire. And don't forget to crack the valve on a full tank of freon.
“The elite left is populated with so many idiots that they can’t even stick to a coherent narrative for 45 seconds, let alone take over the world.”
You do not understand how propaganda and brainwashing works.
It is not obedience when you obey reasonable laws. It is only obedience when you obey insane ones.
It is not obedience when you agree with government edicts that have internal consistency. It is obedience when you agree with government edicts that contradict recent government edicts.
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