A Car Costs a Lot More Than You Think - WSJ.com

Mercedes or Ford, a Car Costs a Lot More Than You Think - WSJ.com:

Here's the breakdown of a car expenses is about $9,000 per year: Pretty Car Chart illustration

1. 39% is depreciation
2. 35% is associated with the miles driven: fuel, oil, tires, etc.

That's 3/4 of the cost of a car, if you are only driving 15,000 per year.

Insurance, finance charges and tag/taxes are about 10% each.

Time is not included here, but it should be if commuting is the reason for all of the 15,000 miles traveled.

A car may cost a lot more than you think, but it also cost a LOT more than WSJ thinks it costs.

TELECOMMUTING

We know that the full cost (savings really) of someone telecommuting is more like $30,000 per year. That's the company (some $23k savings/year), to the individual and to the community (more roads). That's before introducing the concept of cost of an employee's (leisure) time.

* SustainZine blogs on Telecommuting

* SustainZine blogs on Workshift

* Transportation Humor, kinda.

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How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability

How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability: "According to Gartner, this drive to mobility will become a $1 trillion market in the next four years. T"

This is a great article from March '11, but it mentions many of the key benefits and issues with telecommuting.

Included in the article is: "According to Gartner, this drive to mobility will become a $1 trillion market in the next four years."

The savings from telecommuting are too great, and too immediate, to ignore.

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Work Shifting - Office in the Cloud... or not?

Work Shifting - Welcome to Your New Office in the Cloud

Ok, let me get this straight: only 29% of small business owners had ever heard of Cloud Computing!:-(

And of those, only 26% could describe what Cloud is?

If my math is good (29% x 26%) that means that only 7.5% of small business owners know what Cloud is!

One of the greatest equalizers of our time, and small business owners don't know what it is. (IT, Edu & IP make 3)

One can assume that a lot of them aren't using cloud either? Cloud, SaaS, ASP, etc.... These are a prerequisite for productivity and for successful telecommuting.

Wow? Gotta go think about this.