That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and that it would save a lot of gas,that’s not going to happen.
What’s going on?Some of it is obvious:people like to go to the office for social reasons,even if their work tasks don’t require it.And that’s not just to be around other people.Our social needs also include being seen,and making “right” impressions on bosses and colleagues.Our own research at Work Design Collaborative is completely consistent with that interpretation.
So how are we actually going to realize the energysaving opportunities that we’re missing?It seems to me there are two very basic actions called for.
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.
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