Teleworking From Salt Lake City
After nearly a month between posts, I'm happy to be back blogging from a new location. My wife & I just moved ourselves to Salt Lake City & thus far, we are really liking the city, the mountains, the sun, the views & the friendly people!
With a new location comes a new job, right? Well, no actually. My company was kind enough to offer a telecommute situation, so I am now working from home.
I mention this because it means I'll be driving a LOT less than I had been in Albany. I will be flying quite a bit more than I had been, so I'm not sure what his change means for my net energy use, but I plan to do some research on that front. Look for something in a future post on that topic.
The telecommuting has been going well thus far. Since I work "on the web", the work is the same. Obviously the physical isolation is the big change ... that is - no doubt - an adjustment.
Here are some interesting numbers that detail energy savings from teleworking reported by Sun Microsystems on Web Worker Daily:
* The average worker only used 64 watts per hour at home, compared to 130 watts per hour in a Sun office.
* Commuting was responsible for 98% of each employee's carbon footprint.
* Working from home two and a half days per week saves two and a half weeks of commuting time per year.
* The same amount of work at home saves 5400 kilowatt hours of energy per year.
