We’ve all heard how commuting back and fourth to work in our gas guzzlers is killing the environment. I’m here to tell you that retiring the car and working in your pajamas may end up killing you. OK, maybe I’m being a bit extreme this morning. I mostly work from a home office and today both my kids are home from school because the school year ended yesterday. They start camp in a few weeks but I figured since I work from home it would be easy to have them hang out here while I do my job. This is just one of many work-at-home delusions my friends. I know many of you want my gig because you think it’s job nirvana to never have to leave the house. A recent Monster poll found that 48 percent of you would work from home if you could. And the environmental benefits are enormous. If all of you who could work from home did so for one day that would “eliminate 423,000 tons of greenhouse gases—the equivalent of taking 77,000 cars off the road for a year,” according to telecommuting researchers and authors Kate Lister and Tom Harnish . And there’s been study after study on how good it is for workers. The latest one is by Brigham Young University and was written about on NPR’s “All Tech Considered” this week: …the underlying idea is that while some work is best done in an office setting, having the flexibility to choose when and where they do at least parts of their jobs allows workers to devote greater attention to tasks while they’re “on,” while carving out other time slots for other things. Right now, according to Lister and Harnish, less than 2 percent of workers in the United States work from home the majority of the time. I say, thank goodness

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