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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They couldn't figure out that you basically do the same stuff and follow the same procedures that you do at the office, but on their own? Holy crap.
Couldn’t they just used PDFs sent by secure email on a VPN, with electronic signatures, for the paperwork?
Personally, the moment anyone brings up climate change, gender-whatever, systemic racism, common sense gun control, abortion - or any of the other recent leftist issues as if they're actually concerned about them... Well, I just immediately assume they are an idiot, an easily manipulated NPC doing what they've been programmed to do.
I think it had less to do with climate and more to do with commercial real estate (money) and control freaks/micromanahers suffering from withdrawal.
“Okay, this confirms there simply are not enough things to worry about.”
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Also strongly suggestive a new departments in companies: We-Sit-Around-All-Day -And-Dream-Sh!T-Up
So the homeless are the solution, not the problem. Good we can cross homelessness off the fix it list.
Total BS as if the people working at home turn off their home heating or air conditioning while at work. What about the emissions from cars, buses and trains taking commuters to those big glass boxes. Do these energy efficient corporate campuses turn off heating and air conditioning after work hours? The extra energy needed to keep a laptop charged wouldn’t be enough to drive a Tesla out of the driveway.
“Yes, it’s “more green” to drive 40 miles a day, 5 times a week.”
Shhhh...you’re saying the quiet part out loud and exposing their obvious next step which is to compress the workforce into urban centers where mass transit is the clear solution to their conjured “problem.”
Do these people really want us to think that people don’t heat and cool their homes while they are at work?
Even when I was going to the office, my wife was home, as was my kid. My working from home has resulted in ZERO added energy from my home, and negative energy expenditure from my car.
These people need to study 5th grade science. The Carbon Cycle takes care of this.
So they want the workers to burn gasoline, that they cannot afford, to reduce their emissions by working at home?
There does not seem to be any limit to the left’s desire to destroy everything about our civilization.
Ooh, “emissions don’t go away”. Well, yah sorted that out, did yah?
The only answer is murder. Of “those people”, of course. All commie trash regimes go that route. Always have, always will. That is the goal of all versions of commie trash politics — murder “THEM”.
My experience is the opposite and now that the main office has gone to partial in-office, it's so clear that the ones in the office are far, far less productive.
I suspect that the bosses are going to try to call in the remote workers to hide how incompetent and unproductive the in-house staff is.
I’ll support this when my workers can make goods at their home factories and ship from their home warehouse, on the magic delivery truck driven from the driver’s sofa.
One day we’ll go from areas that require a minimum sq ft size for a house to a maximum sq ft size. Won’t apply to all areas though. I wonder if Blackrock will take all those single family homes and split them into duplexes?
If the government tries to force businesses to monitory their employees while at home, that would be a third amendment violation.
The Supreme Court has opined in Griswold:
The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. See Poe v. Ullman, 367 U. S. 497, 367 U. S. 516-522 (dissenting opinion). Various guarantees create zones of privacy. The right of association contained in the penumbra of the First Amendment is one, as we have seen. The Third Amendment, in its prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" in time of peace without the consent of the owner, is another facet of that privacy.The Supreme Court implied that the quartering of soldiers was akin to government agents intruding on one's home. Companies that are forced to monitor the behavior of workers in their own homes makes those companies government agents, and monitoring their home behaviors has the same effect as if the government agents were quartered inside the home.
-PJ
AMEN!
I wonder how old Amanda is and what her credentials are for this job at salesforce?
How much energy, as if I really care to debate this subject, was consumed by homes empty during the day or already occupied by persons staying home during the day, what very few people are stay at home moms anymore?
Hand wringing has become a national occupation.
Aside from the absolutely bogus climate alarmism, this is silly in other ways as well. I know for me, even if I were to drive to the office, my home electricity usage wouldn’t change much at all. I don’t turn my computer off when I’m not using it. The thing sits there idling all the time.
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