Canadian politician calls for National Work from Home Day

[marmar]

from the Globe & Mail:



From Parliament Hill, Mike Savage delivers this message: Do not come to work.

He laughs when the contradiction is pointed out to him. He’s not at his home in Nova Scotia and he’s working. Still, the Liberal human resources critic is trying to create some buzz around a campaign by Workopolis, the online job board, to encourage Canadians to work from home.

He is making a statement Wednesday in the House of Commons calling for a National Work from Home Day.

Working from home, Mr. Savage argues, would enhance the country’s productivity, improve work-life balance and, most significantly, help the environment. People would simply not be in their cars. The long commute would become a thing of the past and that extra time would free up people to work more.

“If one million Canadians were to work at home one day a week Canada would save some 250 million kilograms of CO2 emissions,” he says. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberal-mp-wants-you-to-stay-home-and-work/article1811715/

[bliss_eternal]

1. go Canada..!

...way to work toward saving the planet!

[Eddie Haskell]

2. This is about peak oil

and what we can do to mitigate its effects.