Office Work: Transforming Energy Demand and Practice

办公室工作：转变能源需求和实践Jemma Cliff -兰开斯特大学我的项目研究了COVID-19大流行后办公室工作的变化方式。应对封锁和社交距离要求的方法挑战了许多长期存在的关于如何、何时以及在何处可以和“应该”进行办公室工作的假设。新的问题出现了，比如办公室工作需要什么，弹性工作的成本和收益，以及日常通勤的未来。我的项目旨在了解办公室工作的空间和机构重新配置对能源需求的程度，时间和位置的影响。该方法将重点放在办公室工作的社会和地理组织上，将其视为跨越传统区别的扩展调查网站，例如家庭和非家庭部门的能源使用之间，以及交通，通勤和数字通信之间。拟议的战略揭示了形成相关的需求模式的机会，而这些模式无法通过传统的和单独的部门分析和比较来确定。两个合作伙伴组织将参与这项研究。这两家公司都是金融咨询公司，正在积极反思办公室工作的组织方式，并以减少碳排放为目标。通过使用案头分析和访谈相结合的方法，研究将确定和评估数量有限的低碳“格式”，供伙伴组织内部考虑和辩论。在项目的第一年，我的目标是与合作伙伴组织建立密切的工作关系，并举行一系列会议，旨在告知我的研究细节，并最大限度地提高其实际效益。作为这项工作的一部分，我打算审查现有的方法，代表不同的工作实践的碳和能源的后果。在研究的第二年和第三年，我的目标是与合作伙伴组织的经理和其他工作人员共同制作一些研讨会。这些将集中在什么是办公室工作，办公室工作是在哪里完成的，以及这对现在和未来几年的工作实践意味着什么。从这些活动中获得的见解以及研究中基于访谈的部分的结果将反馈到项目中，并将以两份项目报告的形式记录下来，每个伙伴一份。我的综合项目旨在展示什么是一个概念上的重点“办公室工作”带来的能源领域。它还将有助于推动关于能源和数字、建筑物能源、家庭能源以及与交通有关的能源需求的单独辩论。

Office work: transforming energy demand and practice Jemma Cliff - Lancaster University My project examines the ways in which office work is changing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods of responding to lockdown and to the demands of social distancing have challenged many long-standing assumptions about how, when and where office work can and "should" be performed. New questions have arisen about what office work entails, about the costs and benefits of flexible working and the future of daily commuting. My project is designed to understand what effect the spatial and institutional reconfiguration of office work has on the extent, timing and location of energy demand. The method is to focus on the social and geographical organisation of office work, treating this as an extended site of enquiry that cuts across conventional distinctions, for example between energy use in the domestic and the non-domestic sector, and between transport, commuting and digital communication. The proposed strategy reveals opportunities for shaping related patterns of demand that would not be identified from conventional and separate sectoral analyses and comparisons. Two partner organisations will be involved in the research. Both are financial consultancy firms that are actively re-thinking the way in which office work is organised and are doing so with a view to carbon reduction. Through using a combination of desk analysis and interviews, the research will identify and evaluate a limited number of lower-carbon 'formats' to be considered and debated within the partner organisations. In the first year of the project I aim to build close working relationships with the partner organisations and hold a series of meetings designed to inform the detail of my research and maximise its practical benefit. As part of this work I intend to review existing methods of representing the carbon and energy consequences of different working practices. In the second and third year of the research I aim to co-produce a number of workshops, designed with managers and other staff from the partner organisations. These will focus on what office work is, where office work is done, and what this means for working practices now and in the years ahead. Insights from these events, together with the results of the interview-based parts of the study will feed back into the project, and will be captured in the form of two project reports, one for each partner. My integrative project intends to demonstrate what a conceptual focus on 'office working' brings to the energy field. It will also serve to contribute towards otherwise separate debates about energy and the digital, energy in buildings, energy in the home, and energy-demand relating to transport.