Government and industry reports have shown that an increasing number of men and women are now opting to work from home. Lot of people now don't mind combining their work with families, as it gives an option to give more time to their families and pay more attention to raising their children. With the advancement of technology work from home has become easier and feasible.

If you are one of the many who are opting to work from home, you are contributing greatly to the society, your company and of course to your personal life. Besides its other benefits like home life, family and increase in productivity, work from home has been proven to save energy and ultimately helping the environmental protection and preservation. . .

We will further demonstrate the many benefits of work from home on environment. One way it is the conservation of energy in production, operation and maintenance of vehicles. The various modes of transportation such as cars, buses and trains used by people to get to and back from work every day requires a lot of energy.

Regardless of the cost of production and maintenance there are more and more vehicles on the road. This leads to traffic congestion, which in turn results in wasted man hours, stress and lesser productivity. To address this situation, all we do is build more roads and expand existing roads again resulting in additional energy consumption. Work from home not only saves on energy and money, but it also safeguards us from environmental degradation by keeping cars off the road thus reducing fuel consumption. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 1.2 million gallons of fuel would be saved if at least 10 percent of the US population opts to work from home just one day in a week.

In addition to this, with less number of cars on the road, we will have less traffic jams and therefore reduced gas emissions from the slow moving vehicles. There will be less need to build parking lots or road expansions, saving not only materials and resources but more importantly land. Land can instead be converted into parks that will help preserve the quality of our environment.

Another way that work from home contributes to energy conservation is in office maintenance. The electricity required for lighting, maintaining the equipments, cooling and heating an office building is significantly more than what would be required at home. Repairs and the transportation of materials are other factors that contribute to energy consumption. A work from home employee would mean one less energy consumer in office which means less electrical requirements and maximized use of existing structures.