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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220791/teleworking-good-environment-sun

A survey of employees’ home and workplace energy use has revealed that office equipment eats up energy at twice the rate of home equipment.

The in-depth study was conducted by Sun Microsystems on a selection of its own employees, who were equipped with a kilowatt-hour monitor that measures electricity consumption.

Participants averaged a power consumption of 64 watts per hour at home, compared with 130 watts per hour at a Sun Microsystems office.

The results suggest that cutting down commuting by 2.5 days per week could reduce an employee’s energy consumption by the equivalent of 5,400 kilowatt hours a year.

Check out this article, it’s a topic of debate that is set to continue as home working becomes more popular, more mainstream, particularly as we start discussing or declaring the carbon footprint of our business, our data center. We need to understand and evaluate what investment in capital, in infrastructure and environmentally we have to put in place to have another team member join us on site, to decide whether it’s someone we need on site, or someone that can fulfill the role whilst working from home; do we need all the engineers on site? Could we not allocate them specific tasks when working from home – write a script to do this, perform an audit of that etc, by more effectively managing those on site and those off site could we not improve our team performance, our delivery? We’ll have to see, do check it out.

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