In developed economies more than 80% of jobs are office based. Considering the technology we have today I wonder why these people need to go to an office to carry out their duties. E-mail, skype, mobile, shared drives, cloud services our main "work tools" allow us to be anywhere. Office space costs between 100€ and 1,000€ per month per person depending on where you are. If we seriously encouraged organisations to do teleworking we could :
- Save an average of 1 hour a day of commute time per office worker
- Reduce the amount of CO2 released in the atmosphere
- Reduce the amount of office space needed which would lower housing prices and possibly homelessness
- Reduce the number of Bullshit Jobs as defined by David Graeber (not that I necessarily agree with him). If you work from home you need less managers checking what you do. Everybody becomes self motivated
- Enhance social interactions with family and friends which can only bring positive mental health benefits (Ok Fine it depends on your family!)
- Increase employees pay since organisations no longer have to pay for all that unused office space
It's easy to implement: Significantly increase taxes on office buildings and companies will immediately react!
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