First,organizations must make distributed work not only available but expected by more employees.Company policies and financial incentives can easily “push” workers into changing their patterns.Note that I am not advocating making everyone a fulltime telecommuter.But just getting half of the workforce to work from home or in a nearby facility two days a week would save 20% of the gasoline now being consumed by moving people from homes to offices.
Second,we also need some national public policy initiatives to encourage people to work from home.It’s time to realize just how critical telecommuting and distributed work are to our national security—on several levels.It’s about reducing our dependence on foreign sources of energy.It’s about business continuity in the face of natural disasters(Katrina,etc.) and/or acts of terrorism.And perhaps most importantly of all,it’s about reducing greenhouse gases as we address the global climate crisis I wrote about yesterday in An Inconvenient Truth.
16.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.Onequarter of the US workforce is now doing their jobs at home.
B.The people who prefer to work from home can not afford to telecommute.
C.Although they can telecommute,Americans still prefer to work at office.
D.More and more people who can telecommute prefer to work from home.
17.According to the study,people don’t choose to work from home because________.
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