Working from home uses four times less energy than offices

Heating and lighting a massive glass tower is far less efficient than powering a few laptops in a residential living room. In the European Union, a typical office environment consumes roughly 0.8 kilowatt-hours of energy per square meter, while a home office requires just a quarter of that. This shift in thermodynamics is so significant that proposed remote work mandates could save the 27 member states 72 terawatt-hours of electricity every year.