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This page is a portal to articles on Remote Work and Remote Attendance, the single most immediate improvement we can make to aviation noise, pollution and climate impacts.
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Just Five Percent
As we previously wrote, the single biggest thing we as airport community activists could do to reduce the noise and pollution would be to encourage Remote Work. We at SeatacNoise.Info have been puzzled for a while now why this hasn’t been a part of the discussion in either airport communities or climate change activists. We -
2021-05-04
Just keep doing what you’re doing
There was a longstanding joke in the software biz: ‘the remote revolution is just around the corner!’ The irony was that, despite the fact that remote work was tailor-made for the industry, the software business was the last place such a revolution would ever happen. Managers were very straightforward: they wanted their employees in the -
A letter to Representative Adam Smith: Conservation
Representative Smith, I had a conversation yesterday with your wonderful aide . I mentioned the idea of bringing ‘conservation’ into the discussion of air travel and she must have thought I was nuts. It is hard to explain to younger people how much Americans used to glamourise cars. The idea that we might ever feel -
Remote Works Better
Introduction One small silver-lining from 2020 is the broad realization that a great deal of work can now be done as well or even better without travel. Reducing unnecessary travel is the single most immediate and efficient way to mitigate climate change. Not only is it practically ‘free’, it actually saves time and money for -
2020-07-29Lessons Learned from Remote Working During COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space?
This July 2020 U.S. Senate hearing examined lessons learned from government employees working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring whether the federal government could save money by reducing its use of leased office space. Witnesses from Dell Technologies, Global Workplace Analytics, and the California Air Resources Board testified about the benefits and challenges of telework. Note: This document does not contain content directly related to Sea-Tac Airport noise policy.