Quick Wins to Save you Energy
We know that businesses are different from one another, with different carbon reduction challenges and opportunities facing each business and sector. Below is a list of tips that are generic to most businesses, but can help cut energy usage in all businesses.
Employee Incentives
- Identify an environmental champion/s
- Offer bike loans to employees
- Set up car sharing schemes
- Post up-to-date local bus and train timetables on company notice boards.
- Try to be flexible about work start and finish times if this enables employees to use public transport.
- Identify staff who would be suited to working from home; even one day a fortnight will make a difference. Flexible working boasts other benefits including less sick days and improved work/life balance.
- Promote the health and financial benefits of walking and cycling.
- Move cycle racks close to the entrance of your building.
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