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Working from home therefore leads to higher energy costs, unless you generate your own energy and use it smartly.

An analysis of travel data shows that we are working in the office again to save energy costs at home. As experts in mobility trends, analyzed anonymous data from more than 150.000 Shuttle mobility cards and charge cards. This gives a fairly good picture of business travel behavior in the Netherlands and the trends in this area. With energy prices rising rapidly, working in the office seems like a good way to save more on energy at home.

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According to Nibud, 50 percent of the total extra costs of working from home come from heating, water and energy consumption, and energy costs are increasing. Especially the cost of gas. last year, Nibud still assumed an average of € 2 per day per person extra because of being at home more, but that amount has now been adjusted considerably upwards. In winter you can easily burn 2 cubic meters of gas per day more if you work from home. You burn about 80 percent of the entire annual gas requirement between October and the end of March.

You would say that working from home automatically means that your energy bill increases, but nothing could be further from the truth! People who work at home use – not unexpectedly – ​​more energy at home. Your coffee maker, computer, screens and air conditioning are running at full speed all day long. A logical consequence of this is that the energy consumption of households has increased.

Shuttle

Shuttel is a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solution that gives employees access to almost all forms of mobility and possibly working from home with one app/card, without all the administration. Shuttel makes traveling easier, more sustainable and more insightful. More than 150.000 users from various Dutch companies travel with Shuttel every day, and together they make more than 300.000 travel movements per day

With energy prices rising rapidly, working in the office seems like a good way to save more on energy at home.
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