Working from home 'can help save the planet'
29 May 2007
Employees who work from home can help the environment as well as address the work-life balance, according to new research.
A report sponsored by BT Conferencing and Giritech found that homeworking, if "planned and managed", can be beneficial to the environment.
This is because it can minimise the number of cars and other forms of transport on the roads and hence curb emissions.
The report said: "The indications are that the energy savings from travel will outweigh the additional energy used as a result of the extra hours spent working at home."
David Banister, professor of transport studies at Oxford's Centre for the Environment and one of the report's authors, told The Guardian newspaper: "There is a massive appetite for home and remote working: 65 per cent of people asked said that they would work from home if they could."
The news follows research from the Office for National Statistics that 3.4 million people regularly or permanently work from home..
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