Work Remotely on Climate Care Day
Going green — By Stephanie on March 12, 2010 at 6:37 am
Stay at home for work on Climate Care Day
Coming up – two weeks from today – is Climate Care Day!
Make plans now to revise your business travel schedule on Friday, March 26. Instead of hopping on a plane or even braving the local commute in your car, hop on the Internet instead!
Use your email, telephone or even VoIP (voice over internet protocol) services like Skype, which allow you to video conference over the Internet for free, all from the comfort of your home! Be sure to get your boss’s approval first though….
Can you imagine business meetings in your bunny slippers. Conference calls with your cat? Why not?
The impact of Climate Care Day can be huge! Carbon emissions from air travel in particular could be cut significantly if more companies reduced business travel. Its safe to say that much of the traveling done in the name of work could just as easily be done from your own hometown. If we can cut back on business travel to the bare necessities, we’ll save across the board: time, money and the environment!
Breathe easy on Climate Care Day
Arkadin Global Conferencing constitutes the brains behind Climate Care day. Just for 24 hours (longer if you like) businesses are urged to schedule remote meetings instead of business travel.
The hope is that businesses overall will realize that the global and financial expenditure of business travel is not worth its price. Just as much – if not more – work can be accomplished remotely. If you are not spending 2-12 hours traveling, just imagine what you can get done!
This year’s Climate Care Day is scheduled for March 26, which will be the 24 hours leading up to WWF’s Earth Hour.
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2 Comments
What a marvelous idea! A decade ago, it was already recognized that the clubby atmosphere of the corporate office was counterproductive. The internet was supposed to allow the majority of employees to work from home and do away with unnecessary business travel. But old, albeit unproductive, ways die hard. Ideally, Corporate America should substitute a weekly Work Remotely Day for Casual Friday, thereby eliminating 52 days of business travel (ground and air) instead of one. Imagine the impact *that* would make on carbon emissions!
Joanna,
In my own several decades in corporate America, I’ve experienced the waxing and waning of the claimed necessity of “face time” at the office. I totally agree that we could replace at least one day a week of casual dress with a work remotely day. Whether we give it a cute moniker like “telecommute Tuesday,” or simply encourage the practice across the board, there is more than one way to save green by working from home!