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Wanna wear white to work after Labor Day?

08.29.2008

Submitted by tmeronek on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 12:45am.
The Bite:
If you work from home, you can wear white whenever you damn well please. See if your boss will let you work from home once a week - it'll save transportation energy and gives you a few more minutes of precious, precious shuteye in the a.m. Works for us.
The Benefits: 
  • Working for a cleaner planet. If the 33 million Americans who could work from home did work from home, we'd save as much as 7.5 billion gallons of gas each year.
  • Less laboring over fuel costs. As of last week, the average gallon of gas in the United States cost $3.74. Nuff said.
  • Pressing Snooze a couple more times. Since there's no commute, you can get a little more sleep.
  • A less frustrating telecommute. It's 2008. You might be surprised at the new (and often free) virtual-office tech out there, which makes it way easy to stay connected, even from your bedroom.
Personally Speaking: 
The SF Biter team works from home once a week...and it usually adds an extra hour of work to our day that we woulda spent commuting. It also means we can work even when we've got the flu. Awesome.
Wanna Try: 
  • Adium and Digsby - free Mac and Windows (respectively) programs that let you chat via AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and other services, all at once.
  • FreeConference - schedule conference calls for free (you do have to call a long-distance number).
  • Genesys - top-of-the-line videoconferencing software from a company that'll perform an energy-savings audit for you; its calculator shows managers how much money you can save by videoconferencing.
  • Skype - make free calls to anywhere in the world using your computer.
  • FlexJobs - scope out job listings for thousands of jobs that let you work from home.
Gordon Bell, Amy Rutledge, and Aly Saxe

Cocktail Fact

On Jul. 1, most government employees in Birmingham, AL, started working four days a week to save on commuting costs.

Bang For The Bite

Not every boss will get immediately on board, but if 10,000 Biters telecommute once a week, in a year we'll have the CO2-reducing effect of 560 people switching from conventional cars to hybrids.

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Garry  on October 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM 1
Working from home is only just emerging. I agree with the savings and benefits, even I work in a Virtual office Chicago and so far so good, we switched to that the last year and it didn't take to long to adapt. As for the benefits there are a lot of savings already. I think the future will bring even more opportunities for online working. I am looking forward to see that actually happening!

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