Tech and financial companies leading efforts to cut climate changing emissions are finding a new challenge from remote work: The carbon dioxide spewing out of home offices.
"Emissions didn't go away," said Amanda von Almen, head of emissions reduction at Salesforce."They just shifted to another area." While there are benefits to the climate from millions of employees not commuting when they work from home, the findings underscore that remote work is not a simple solution to cutting corporate emissions.
Companies reported varying benefits from the recent shift to telework. Salesforce found that remote work has cut emissions 29 per cent per employee, while Boston-based fund manager Fidelity Investments found that moving to mostly remote work wiped out 87 per cent of its emissions cuts in 2020. "We anticipated these emissions are small relative to our carbon footprint and we are still evolving our methodology," Apple said in explaining its decision.
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