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Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by bdangubic on Saturday November 23, 2024 @02:50PM (#42223407)
data to support this claim? you are (incorrectly) assuming that since employees are not commuting to work they are just home and cars are just collecting dust in a garage… but of course you go to the store and mall and park and … in the middle of the day and you see a whole other story :)
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by jumping_frog on Saturday November 23, 2024 @02:55PM (#42223428)
One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by bdangubic on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:14PM (#42223946)
there are many positives of WFH but climate change is not one of them
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by brantonb on Saturday November 23, 2024 @03:24PM (#42223623)
I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next couple of days. Now I plan things out better and make fewer shopping trips, as well.

I wonder if I could negotiate cheaper car insurance rates. I’m driving far less and on safer streets, rarely getting on a major highway.

Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by bdangubic on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:05PM (#42223879)
lets say you are good representative of a general population… how much of a climate change “dent” do you think we made?
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by brantonb on Monday November 25, 2024 @12:46PM (#42238317)
I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by bdangubic on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:12PM (#42223931)
you don’t write policies based on guesses…
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by insane_dreamer on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:50PM (#42224822)
We have data from COVID when most people were working from home.
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by bdangubic on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:03PM (#42225420)
COVID is an outlier mate… it wasn’t just that most people were working from home, it was that everything stopped. if that was sustainable long-term that we are all on lockdown globally sure - we’d get traction in climate change and fast. unfortunately though…
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by insane_dreamer on Sunday November 24, 2024 @02:57PM (#42230028)
Yeah, during the initial lockdown period everything stopped but afterwards things resumed a bit more normally as businesses opened, etc., while a large number of people were still working from home.