Diversity and inclusion!
All over
the place people / organisations are talking about climate change,
carbon footprint, diversity & inclusion, but
sincerely I do not see a significant action plan.
- my type of inclusion and diversity = Inca wall that is very strong and earthquake resistant…. I am from a seismic area of the globe
- this is what I understand as diversity & inclusion as an overall implemented model.
The
weather is giving us warnings and the way in which we (the governments) are
behaving is a indication of the system weaknesses. We see that does not take
much to produce a serious imbalance of the society and we are still continuing
to do, as whole, the same things that we did in the past half of century. We are talking about 5G and autonomous vehicles but in the
same time we are sticking to squeeze people/brains/personalities in centralized
(physical) offices.
I’m
not talking here about the small steps taken in the renewable energy, waste
management and electric vehicles.
My
perception is that we are still squeezing people in “boxes” in order to
facilitate the top management actions rather than encourage creativity, new
ideas and such a deeper understanding of the reality surrounding us.
The well
mediatized continuous growth of the economy turned to be a dead
end in my opinion. See the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhcrbcg8HBw.
The doughnut economy model
seems to be a good approach.
I do have a topic to discuss with people
there as innovation is also related to the way in which a
business / activity is conducted!
My purpose is to bring into attention the
idea of travelling / travel for work = > commuting
to the office being the most overlooked aspect of a business approach.
Given the need to:
1. Reduce the carbon
footprint (so spend less energy in everything the we do) and
2. HSE culture /
programme that raised the concerns of H&S issues linked to travel,
I propose to put the commute (travel to and
from office) on the same plane as the other trips for work (site visits,
surveys, meetings with clients, etc.).
So,
my conclusions are:
A. How much do we really need to travel,
commuting on a daily basis from our homes / hometowns, to go to work?
As a part of HSE approach, we all know that the first
risk mitigation measure in relation with travel is do I/we really need to
travel?
What about “out and about” when people are commuting
to work?
B. It is not better to
work more from home or even from different countries?
This will:
·
create a more
balanced work life,
·
reduce the housing
costs,
·
ensure true
diversity in the organisations,
·
repopulate the
smaller towns and, why not
·
ensure an increased
business resilience (avoiding high concentration of offices and “brain power”
in one place); if some disruption is happening in one place, this will not
affect the entire company system, in the area.
C. For manufacturing
types of business, this is not an option but the “remote working” is more than
applicable for design & consultancy.
D. The
time is the only true resource (non-renewable) that we have so my question is:
what about the time spent preparing and commuting to work?
E. No matter how we
turn the table, the need to transportation will involve energy costs and this
is contradicting the point no. 1 (carbon footprint reduction).
If we are remaining constrained in the “work from a
centralized office”, the need for transportation will be always there with the
adjacent energy consumption, like:
I.
Build the specific transportation vehicles fleet – personal or
public,
II.
Operating / using it, along with
III.
Vehicles maintenance costs +
The related infrastructure of roads + parking or storage spaces
costs.
Disclaimer: please excuse the inherent mistakes in the text (grammar and/or typing error), as my focus is on expressing the ideas.
Disclaimer: please excuse the inherent mistakes in the text (grammar and/or typing error), as my focus is on expressing the ideas.
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