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Category: telecommuting

  • A Car Costs a Lot More Than You Think – WSJ.com

    Mercedes or Ford, a Car Costs a Lot More Than You Think – WSJ.com:

    Here’s the breakdown of a car expenses is about $9,000 per year: Pretty Car Chart illustration

    1. 39% is depreciation
    2. 35% is associated with the miles driven: fuel, oil, tires, etc.
    That’s 3/4 of the cost of a car, if you are only driving 15,000 per year.
    Insurance, finance charges and tag/taxes are about 10% each.
    Time is not included here, but it should be if commuting is the reason for all of the 15,000 miles traveled.

    A car may cost a lot more than you think, but it also cost a LOT more than WSJ thinks it costs.

    TELECOMMUTING

    We know that the full cost (savings really) of someone telecommuting is more like $30,000 per year. That’s the company (some $23k savings/year), to the individual and to the community (more roads). That’s before introducing the concept of cost of an employee’s (leisure) time.

    * SustainZine blogs on Telecommuting

    * SustainZine blogs on Workshift

    * Transportation Humor, kinda.

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  • Dell Wants Employees To Work From Home – Business Insider

    Dell Wants Employees To Work From Home – Business Insider:

    Dell is following a “Do Good” plan for 2020. Remote work, packaging and shipping. Working with supply chain and customers as well. Looks pretty GOOD!:-)

    As it pertains to telecommuting… Dell seems to be saving a lot and doing “Good” as well. Telecommuting and other initiatives are outlined in Dell 2020 Legacy of Good Plan.

    Here’s a calc and additional info on Telecommuting savings: http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/calculator

    So Dell is saving lots of money. $14m last year, and reducing impact on the environment, including almost 7 thousands barrels of oil/gas reduction.

    Sounds like a Good Plan, pun intended.:-)

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  • Why the World Bank Is Taking On Climate Change – NationalJournal.com

    Why the World Bank Is Taking On Climate Change – NationalJournal.com: “w­w­w.K­E­P­2.c­o­m”

    Caral Davenport of the National Journal spoke with Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s vice president of sustainable development, about the economic impact of climate change.

     The world bank is taking some rather aggressive action. 
    (Also watch the debate on global warming that follows. Hmmm?.)

     Some of us would argue, that if you don’t want governments to take more active roles in sustainability, then we all should start to be more sustainable ourselves. We have to eventually, right? 

     Why not start now, and start with the “low lying fruit”: energy efficiency, telecommuting, etc.  Those initiatives not only pay for themselves, but can be implemented immediately.

     Or we can continue to debate if there really is global warming, is it primarily man-made, etc. 

     For the latest info on the science and the concepts of sustainability visit: www.TinyURL.com/SharedStuffZ/
    The intro document there provides the outline of the WikiBook with hyperlinks to the live pages in Wikipedia. If you think that Wikipedia is wrong, please offer corrections and provide sources and links to the proof. But, before you offer corrections, read some of the section, especially read the nexus of energy, water, and food.

     Even if there were no global warming, we all should start to take aggressive action now, today, ahora. The global warming issue simply adds a level of urgency to our steps.

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  • Earth Day Number 4 (of 4). Transportation & Telecommuting

    Number 4. Transportation
    & Telecommuting    . Consider alternatives before you drive some place.
    Smart phone “apps” let you do all kinds of comparison shopping without driving
    an inch. Consider carpooling. Most jobs can be done via telecommuting, at least
    occasionally. The savings are 5 to 10 times the price of the gas involved when
    consider the costs to the employer, employee and the environment.
    ToDo: Telecommute occasionally if
    your job allows it… Work to get your employer to allow it (only about half have such an option). There are about $20,000 to $30,000
    in telecommuting savings for a Full-time equivalent (FTE) employee.)
    A quick summary of statistics related to telecommuting
    research can be found at Commute
    Zero    .
     “If all those who
    drove or carpooled who had the ability to telecommute actually did so, the time
    savings would be equal to 470,000 new jobs in the economy.” Stated differently,
    might be that if they all worked (another job) to replace the lost time in
    commute they would represent about a half million FTE workers. 
    Wow!.
    About half of the workers in the US could telecommute at
    least occasionally. About 25% could telecommute full time, but only about 11%
    do.

  • How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability

    How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability: “According to Gartner, this drive to mobility will become a $1 trillion market in the next four years. T”

    This is a great article from March ’11, but it mentions many of the key benefits and issues with telecommuting.

    Included in the article is: “According to Gartner, this drive to mobility will become a $1 trillion market in the next four years.”

    The savings from telecommuting are too great, and too immediate, to ignore.