Is working from home good for the planet?
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00:30Yes, teleworking reduces the distance between the home and the workplace, it's the most direct effect.
00:54And what's interesting to understand is what kind of travel I'm going to avoid,
00:57what kind of travel I won't be able to avoid, what kind of travel might appear while I'm reorganizing my telework.
01:02The effects rebound, so it's something that exists,
01:29it's something that is manageable, but only if we have them in mind.
01:34In concrete terms, teleworking on travel is to say, since I'm teleworking, I'm going to move less, and it turns out that in the end, not necessarily.
01:42More consumption on home infrastructure, less we will reduce consumption in places where we are no longer.
02:08What is interesting is to compare the two situations and to see if in the end we have made an economy,
02:12or if we have just moved consumption from one use to another, without really reducing absolute consumption.
02:38Teleworking is a digital use, so like all digital uses, it relies on a physical infrastructure,
03:05and so it will consume energy, resources, and be linked to greenhouse gas emissions.
03:09Teleworking relies on video flows, especially among others, because we often have the video conference in mind.
03:14Video flows are something that is heavy, which is linked to an occupation of large network infrastructures.
03:35So it's not just a question of knowing if teleworking is good for the environment,
03:58the question is to know how to put it in place and to have in mind its direct and indirect impacts with its rebound effects and mobility,
04:07to be sure that in the end we achieve a decrease in energy consumption and emissions.