Zork Green Tip 18 - 10 Great Reasons to Work from Home
Earthling, if you want to save the planet, convince your boss to let you teleconference and telecommute once per week.
As the cost of gas keeps going up, up and away, staying at home one day per week will reduce your energy consumption, save money and allow you to get more work done.
Give Your Boss these 10 Great Reasons to Work from Home:
1. Less Driving. Instead of wasting time driving back and forth to work and spending one to two hours on the congested highways, getting all stressed out, and spewing pollution, you could be working for the company. Your boss knows time is money.
2. No Need to Wear Clothes. Instead of getting dress up, brushing your teeth and combing your hair, you could get straight to work in your pajamas.
3. Work Like a Slave. Instead of wasting time at the water cooler gossiping or talking about sports, you could be working on the project.
4. Less Kissing Up. Instead of having to brown nose and kiss your boss's rear behind, you could spend all that time working productively.
5. Fewer Fights. Instead of getting into petty little fights with other co-workers about something and nothing, you could be working productively.
6. Shorter Lunches. Instead of going to lunch and taking one hour to one hour and half, you could go to your refrigerator and make a sandwich and once again, you could be working on the project.
7. Fewer Didiot Coworkers. Instead of being interrupted by mindless, Didiot-like employees who get bored during the day and want to play office politics, you could be working on the project.
8. Fewer Boring Meetings. Instead of having to sit through meetings, you could teleconference to them. And when the meetings get long-winded you could either hang up or parallel process by doing simultaneously working and, once again, you could be working productively on the project.
9. Less Goofing Off. Instead of dealing with the idiosyncrasies of co-workers with loud music, loud talking, or throwing a football across the room and distracting you, you could be working on the project.
10. Less Doing Stupid Tasks. Instead of helping your boss kiss up to their boss and asking you to do Didiot-like little things such as bringing coffee to them when they meet, you could be working on the project productively.
Earthling, if all these logical reasons fail then
perhaps you can discuss the future of this planet and how your boss can
become a green leader by allowing you to telecommute and
teleconference.
The average American human spends 46 minutes per day driving to and from work, and 85% of them drive alone.* This is wasted time and energy. These humans drive an average of 32 miles per day** which is equivalent to 17.6 pounds of carbon dioxide put out into the atmosphere per day.***
Calculate your individual CO2 emissions and total costs of commuting with the cool online calculators at HappyHighway.com or CommuteSolutions.org. Surely your boss can understand this math and logic. Do not let your boss be a Didiot boss!
Be green like me (and save money) by telecommuting.
*Gallup's annual Work and Education survey 2007.
** ABC News Poll: Traffic in the U.S.
***More information at Sightline.org.
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