GoFaxer Blog

The environment seems to be on a lot of people’s minds these days. Companies are “going green.” Everyone’s trying to use less energy, if for anything else but to save money.

I’ve been contemplating whether buying or renting office space as a company is really efficient. When you consider the enormous amount of energy that it takes to build and maintain these large office buildings, I can’t help but wonder if they’re really necessary.

I mean, years ago they probably were. You needed access to big expensive office machinery, like enormous room size computers, type writers, copy machines, and fax machines.

But now we all have laptops, email fax, and we work in paperless offices. There’s also conference calling. And video conferencing is a hop, skip, and a jump away from being mainstream. Work can be done from pretty much anywhere with an Internet connection. Everyone has a place of residence. So is the corporate office building really necessary anymore?

I wonder if in the future it will make more sense to eliminate the entire office expense from the equation. Pay people a little more so they can set up a nice office in their house. Let them work from home. Let them set their own hours. It seems to me that it will be a much better use of our natural resources, and frankly, I’d prefer the freedom to check my email in the morning in my pajamas. But maybe that’s just me.