Businesses 'more aware of green concerns'

News Article - 16 April 2008
Category: Environment

Businesses in Britain are increasingly concerned with green issues and are adjusting workplace practices in order to reduce their impact on the environment, according to an expert.

Smaller firms are attempting to reduce their impact on the environment to control costs and improve their green credentials, with more people adopting homeworking strategies in order to do so.

Phil Flaxton, chief executive of non-profit initiative Work Wise UK, suggests that many employees are embracing homeworking and are choosing to work remotely one or two days a week.

Mr Flaxton claims that green concerns are changing the ways in which people work, as awareness increases.

He explained: "Increasingly the green agenda continues to become part of our everyday lives in terms of its media coverage and the importance of it and the cost of fuel and travelling continues to rise, be it on a train or in a car."

A recent study by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform into flexible working practices found that just 52 per cent of UK employees are aware of the right to request flexible working hours since legislation was introduced in 2003.

Small businesses can reduce their carbon footprint by adopting carbonaccounting software.

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