The Telecommuting Thread
Posted: Wed 25 Nov 2015, 16:15:36
From here:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201512/shei ... -team.html
Ignore the silly robotic rolling laptops in this article for a moment and focus on the statistics.
This reinforces my mild-crash (as far as oil shocks go) doomer narrative, that corporate cultural inertia is one of the biggest causes of energy waste, by forcing a whopping 50 percent of the US workforce to commute for jobs that really do not require it. An attitudinal shift in corporate policy is all that is needed to save a tremendous amount of gasoline.
No carpooling or EVs necessary if people just stay home.
(article submitted by my while...working from home)
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201512/shei ... -team.html
Ignore the silly robotic rolling laptops in this article for a moment and focus on the statistics.
Working From Home
The Data on Distance
•80 to 90 percent of the U.S. work force would like to work remotely at least part time.
•38 percent of U.S. employers allow some employees to work remotely on a regular basis.
•Almost 3 percent of U.S. workers work remotely at times--up from 1.5% in 2005.
•In 2014, 50 percent of U.S. workers had jobs compatible with some remote work. That's a 103 percent increase since 2005.
This reinforces my mild-crash (as far as oil shocks go) doomer narrative, that corporate cultural inertia is one of the biggest causes of energy waste, by forcing a whopping 50 percent of the US workforce to commute for jobs that really do not require it. An attitudinal shift in corporate policy is all that is needed to save a tremendous amount of gasoline.
No carpooling or EVs necessary if people just stay home.
(article submitted by my while...working from home)