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As federal workers slam office mandate, study finds remote work cuts emissions (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Researchers found that remote work could decrease transportation emissions by more than 60 per cent on average for federal employees, while increasing their household emissions by less than 10 per cent.

An incredibly obvious conclusion, but at least we have numbers now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Jesus, with those numbers, it should be mandated that everyone (who can) should be working from home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, at least mandating all gov't employees to work from home who can work from home, alone would be a very good start!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The current situation is consistent with the "carbon fighting" government that buys an oil pipeline. So, you know...