Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“Office buildings across the country are filling up again as the air outside grows thicker with climate-warming gases. Federal agencies, state governments and many corporations now require employees to commute five days a week, reversing the remote-work flexibility adopted in 2020. Mounting research shows that those mandates carry a heavy environmental cost. … Independent laboratory research aligns with the satellite record. A 2023 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calculated that moving from full-time office work to full-time work from home slashes an employee’s work-related carbon footprint by as much as 58 percent. Employees who stay home two to four days a week still cut emissions 11 to 29 percent, whereas a token ‘one day remote’ policy trims only 2 percent because extra errands and higher home energy use cancel most of the advantage.” (05/27/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5316360-telework-remote-work-environmental-impact/