{"id":7422,"date":"2023-09-19T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2023-09-19T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T05:27:49","slug":"remote-work-can-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-if-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/09\/19\/remote-work-can-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-if-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecommuting can reduce your carbon footprint if done right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study by Cornell University and Microsoft, remote workers may have a 54 % lower carbon footprint compared to on-site workers, with lifestyle choices and work arrangements playing a major role in determining the environmental benefits of remote and hybrid work. <span>A study published in\u00a0<i>journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also found that hybrid workers who work from\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span>house<\/span><span>\u00a0two to four days a week, they can reduce their carbon footprint by 11 % to 29 %, but working from home one day a week is more negligible, reducing their carbon footprint by only 2 %.\u00a0<\/span><i><\/i><span>&quot;Remote work is not zero-carbon, and the benefits of hybrid work are not perfectly linear,&quot; said study lead author Fengqi You, professor of engineering\u00a0<\/span><span>energy systems<\/span><span>\u00a0at Cornell. &quot;Everyone knows that you save money without commuting\u00a0<\/span><span>energy for transportation<\/span><span> , but there is always an influence on lifestyle and many other factors.&quot; (<em>Cornell University<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote workers can have a 54% lower carbon footprint than on-site workers, according to a new study from Cornell University and Microsoft, with lifestyle choices and work arrangements playing a crucial role in determining the environmental benefits of remote and hybrid work. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also found that [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}