Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint
Remote work seems like one of many missed “Jetsons opportunities.”[a] Why wouldn’t we, given the ability, work from our own comfy homes instead of rolling into a crowded, stuffy office everyday? Why isn’t this practice that workers clearly love, and are willing to leave companies to keep, seen as a great step in the progress of labor? We should be counting our blessings instead of counting beans, that such a way of working is even possible today.[a] A Jetsons opportunity is any missed prediction of the future from the past, usually in a form like “where’s my flying car?”