Save the World and improve Work-Life Balance
Erstellt von Hans-Georg Nelles am Dienstag 17. Juni 2008
Die Welt retten und die eigene Balance von Arbeit und Leben verbessern. Geht das?
Ein gangbarer Weg dazu ist die Arbeit im Home Office, die alternierende Telearbeit. Eine Studie von Sun Systems ging der Frage nach, ob und in welchem Umfang Energie und Kosten eingespart werden können oder ob lediglich Kosten vom Arbeitgeber auf die Beschäftigten verschoben werden.
Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Studie sind:
- Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home an average of 2.5 days a week.
- Office equipment energy consumption rate at a Sun office was two times that of home office equipment energy consumption, from approximately 64 watts per hour at home to 130 watts per hour at a Sun office.
- Commuting was more than 98 percent of each employee’s carbon footprint for work, compared to less than 1.7 percent of total carbon emissions to power office equipment.
- By eliminating commuting just 2.5 days per week, an employee reduces energy used for work by the equivalent of 5,400 Kilowatt hours/year.
- Working from home 2.5 days per week saved the employees in the study an average of 2.5 weeks of commute time (8 hours/day, 5 days/week).
