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At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many companies were forced to embrace remote working for their employees, Now that a semblance of normality has returned, many businesses are going back to normal and encouraging their employees to get back to the office, but is this the best strategies?
When it comes to running a sustainable company, there are some serious advantages to remote working. Including the following:
Lower-emissions
One of the biggest benefits of remote working is that employees no longer have to commute to work all week. As you can imagine, this means that fear emissions are being pumped into the air each day because fewer employees will be traveling to work by car.
This is also great news for employees who can ease into their day a bit better when they do not have to worry about traveling to the office.
Less power used
Okay, so this is not absolutely always the case, but most small to medium businesses, when they embrace remote working will use less power overall simply because it often takes a lot more juice to run a whole office building, with all that entails, than it does for your employees to power up their home when they are working from home, which means it is definitely possible to save on electricity consumption overall.
Less paper wasted
When you’re running your business remotely, you need to make most documents digital so that your employees and your virtual assistant company , and anyone else who may need access can get access without delay. This, of course, means that you will end up using fr less paper and ink to create hard copies like you used to.
The USA alone pro 85 million tons of paper annually, and around 33 percent of that is not recycled, so anything your business can do to help with that particular problem has to be very welcome.
Fewer flights taken
Flying is one of the worst things anyone can do from an environmental perspective. The average flight produces around 1/4 tonne of CO2 for every hour in the air. When you switch to remote working, you naturally do not need to take as many business flights because you can conduct those meetings online using the best conferring software available to you and it will be just as effective.
Cut plastic consumption
When your employees work from home they are more likely to make their own lunches and brew their own coffee using their own crockery, which means fewer prepacked sandwiches, salads, and takeaway coffees will be used. This will undoubtedly mean that less plastic is purchased by your employees and that is great news for the environment.
As you can see, remote working is a pretty green choice that more companies should think about embracing if they are serious about sustainability now and in the future. It is also likely to be the future of many companies, so the sooner you embrace it fully, the better adapted your business will be.