Affordable and convenient× Governments the world over must facilitate this mode of working which has many ecological and work-life benefits Work From Home (WFH) was considered as an effective solution to curtail travel and reduce the carbon emissions from transportation. Our experience of cleaner air in Delhi during the Covid lockdown further strengthened this view point. But this view may be true at the local level and not at a global level. In a ground-breaking research, Prof Margaret Bell and her team in UK proved that WFH in UK actually increased the energy usage required for heating homes. Their study shows that people working from home on average use 75 per cent more energy — simply because one needs heating and gas, electricity at home, that’s more than what one saves by not going into work by car. The energy requirement per person is far less when people are working in office, thanks to energy efficient heating systems at offices.