Energy Efficiency

This blogger-instapundit suggests that one way to cut energy consumption is to send workers home to work. He suggests that the federal govenment could send thousands home and maybe even cut workers and get more done ... while they work from home.

Could Porter County send some workers home to work?
How about the City of Valparaiso?

Then the next question unfolds, could we outsource to self-employed entrepreneurs some of this work and permanently reduce the size of the government? Now that's rerform and energy efficiency.

• the federal government, which has lots of employees, and lots of jobs that can be done from home, should take a very aggressive role in promoting telecommuting internally. If this shrinks the demand for new federal buildings, so much the better. It also occurs to me that once "working" doesn't come to mean "being in the office for eight hours regardless of whether anything gets done," people might start looking for output-related metrics, which might allow us to shrink the number of federal employees -- something sure to make both managers and unions unhappy, but something also likely to be good news for taxpayers.

Read the full article and hit the links to "cottage industry" article too.