Carbon Credits for Telecommuting

Avoid vehicle commutes –reducing GHG– and spur innovation in telecommuting technologies: whole–body telepresence, telerobotics, presence and effort monitoring, blending with online training, education, and service delivery, and tighter intra–corporate social bonds over longer distances — all may be spurred with tradable carbon offset credits for avoiding regular vehicle commutes. SR&ED tax credits will apply when developing new telepresence technologies.

Comments

patrickgwelch — 2010–05–16 14:09:48 EDT wrote

Increased investment and encouragement in telecommuting technologies sounds like a very good idea. Dsanden lists a number of potential applications/technologies that I had never thought of and they sound very interesting and promising. However, I am not sure if 'tradable carbon offset credits' would be the best way to do this (although it may be one way to do this).

ChuckHamilton — 2010–07–09 13:59:20 EDT wrote

We need to develop Virtual Work Services to warrant the carbon offset.

There is a significant opportunity in front of us around the notion of virtual work. Leveraging a common digital infrastructure we could begin re–imagine work, the future work place and the future worker.

We are becoming 'virtual' by nature and action, something that was not easy to achieve and is even harder to manage. The virtual work trend requires systematic strategy, policy change, organizational change, new metrics and virtual role models. While many organizations around the globe work this way already, most are slow to seize upon this opportunity. Still it is clear that a virtual work direction is inevitable and that future work will actually change the physical form of cities, challenging long standing central business district theory, urban design, architecture of already too small spaces and more. We can see a time where living and working are more closely linked activities, designed into our environment with associated value and impact.