And the savings aren’t just for the company. While the firm’s owners get to save on office space, the employee gets to save on petrol. HP’s Telework Calculatorfn3 shows a savings of almost $10,000 per year for an SUV driver who spends an hour a day commuting ten miles round trip. Cutting back on commuting also means huge savings for the environment. That same IBM study showed how remote work saved the company five million gallons of fuel in 2007, preventing more than 450,000 tons of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere in the United States alone.
