Telework Savings Calculator
If those employees who could work from home (and wanted to) did so just half of the time (roughly the average for those who do), as a nation we’d save over $650 billion a year, reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of taking 9 million cars off the road, and be able to reduce our Persian Gulf oil imports by 37%, and that’s not all. For more about what we could with more telecommuting, visit our Telework Savings Potential and Telecommuting Pros and Cons pages, or calculate your own company or community savings using our Telework Savings Calculator below.
Our Telework Savings Calculator quantifies the benefits of telecommuting for communities, companies, and individuals.
The results of our Telework Savings Calculator have been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, and many other publications. It’s available free of charge at the bottom of this page and can be used to quantify the benefits of working from home in terms of: reducing fossil fuel usage; lowering greenhouse gases; saving money for companies, individuals, and communities; increasing productivity; reducing absenteeism; increasing retention; improving traffic safety; reducing road wear and tear; and improving work-life balance.
There are two versions of the Calculator. The one below allows you to quantify the benefits of home-based work for the whole U.S., individual states, counties, congressional districts, metro areas, or cities. It’s based on U.S. Census data plus variables and constants we’ve gleaned from dozens of well-respected studies.
Our Custom Telework Savings Calculator (which you can also access by clicking on the Modify Assumptions option below), allows you to quantify how much a telecommuting program could save your company or community based on your own assumptions.
To see how it works, select your state and then calculate the results. Then click on Modify Assumptions, and change the fuel price and look at the results. Then enter the number of employees in your company and how many days per week they currently work from home to see what you’re already doing to save money, improve lives, and reduce pollution. Then enter the number of people that could telecommute, but instead of using our 40% assumption—enter your own estimate based on the particulars of your workforce. If you’re a software developer try 90% or even 100%—companies such as Orbx and mySQL have been successful at reaching those levels.
NOTE: WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF LOADING THE 2008 NUMBERS AND ASSUMPTIONS INTO THE TELEWORK SAVINGS CALCULATOR — A U.S. SEARCH WILL NOT PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS AS STATED ABOVE. IF YOU’RE A REPORTER AND NEED A CUSTOM CALCULATION BASED ON 2008 CENSUS DATA, PLEASE CALL US.
Reporters On Assignment: If you need additional details or would like us to do a custom calculation, email us info-at-undress4success-dot-com. Please let us know what organization you represent and your deadline. If you are a reporter you’re welcome to call us at 760-703-0377 or 760-473-2574.Note: You can only search on one area at a time—all 50 states, a given state, or within a state, a particular county, congressional district, metro area, or city. Not all cities are available as they weren’t included in the census data. But, hey, it’s free so quit your griping. If you know the number of residents and how many telecommute in the city you’re interested in, click the Modify Assumptions option, fill in that data and you’ll have the answer.
