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A sustainable homeworking policy sets out best practice behaviours for employees to folow at home to reduce their environmental impact.
It covers areas such as lighting, heating, IT equipment and waste - providing guidelines for employees to follow.
Although it's hard to track adherence to the policy, it's a great way of engaging employees on sustainability at home.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, most businesses now operate a hybrid or even fully-remote working model, with employees working from home some or all of the time.
At home, employees use IT equipment, lighting and heating as they work, which all contributes to your business's Scope 3 emissions.
Previously, these emissions would have occured in the office environment, so it's important to include them in your carbon management strategy and capture your full impact as a business.
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Want to learn more about emissions from homeworking, and how to capture them?
It's all about employee engagement, through things like sharing this Sustainable Homeworking Policy or employee surveys.
The main emission-driver is heating, so helping employees to manage their behaviours here (for example, by not heating the whole house if it's only them home) is key.
There's lots of other things employees can do - from replacing old lightbulbs with LEDs, to making sure they don't leave devices on standby.
The best method is to send out an employee survey (like Seedling's, try it here!), to capture first-hand data.
Seedling's survey makes it easier than ever to capture accurate data in less than a few minutes of your employees' time. All you need to do is send round the link.
Alternatively, the government (DEFRA) publishes average-based emission factors which specify the typical emissions generated from an hour of homeworking in the UK.
Fill in the form below to get your copy.
Some common questions answered around our template.
The policy is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting sustainable practices for employees and contractors working remotely.
Employees are the main target, but you can also share it with any contractors you work with and make acknowledgement a condition of working with you.
Tracking homeworking emissions helps businesses measure and reduce their Scope 3 emissions, making their operations more environmentally responsible.
Yes! Seedling employee survey - sent direct from our platform - can capture the level of uptake and change over time for all of the initiatives in this policy.
Making employees aware of support that's available - for example, government grants for heat pumps - is also key alongside sharing the policy.
Book a demo or get in touch and we'll be happy to help.
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