Flexible home working – making life better
Extract: "The concept of working from home instead of in your
city centre based office is not new but the slow take-up of flexible working arrangements
by companies has started to raise questions.
The benefits of home working for employees and employers are certainly real and
impressive with the employee being able to fit their working life around their personal
needs whilst being either a reduced or even non-existent participant in the daily
commuter chaos that is both stressful and tiring."
Less commuting means less congestion and less carbon emissions which has also
got to be good news with some estimates that a significant part of the government’s
carbon reduction target could be delivered simply by maximising home working – no
need for congestion charging or road pricing and all the pain that accompanies these
new taxes. One multinational that has embraced flexible working estimates that its
employees save on average 12 million litres of car fuel a year – reducing C02 emissions
by around 15,000 tonnes per year."
See article from
Freelance UK.