But how does NotOnlyDesk actually deal with target number 11 of the Agenda?

Currently, one of the most significant problems at a global level concerns pollution, especially in large cities and surrounding areas. Environmental pollution caused by workers moving to the workplaces is in fact becoming an increasingly topical issue. And it is on this element of the Objective that NotOnlyDesk is trying to act since the day of its birth.

According to estimates, the average distance between the workplace and the workers' residence is about 20 kilometres. Distance covered, as the case may be, through the use of public or private transport.

Promoting smart or hybrid working methods therefore significantly reduces the environmental impact generated by commuting home-to-work alone. But the environmental advantages of NotOnlyDesk are not limited to this: as we have always tried to clearly explain agile work, if carried out from home, involves an increase in domestic energy consumption for each worker, generating an increase of 3.01 tons of CO2 in the annual environmental impact of each.

However, the idea behind NotOnlyDesk is to share workspaces with other people, thus dividing consumption and per capita emissions among different users. Assuming, for example, an average square footage of 50 square metres per dwelling for an agile worker and applying precise regulatory coefficients, it is possible to transform this surface into coworking spaces, obtaining at least 4 workstations. This numerical experiment shows that the correct sharing of production spaces can reduce CO2 emissions per capita by 75%.

If you consider NotOnlyDesk's long-term purposes and therefore if the possibility of using a shared office at a maximum distance of 5 kilometres from home were realised, the reduction in CO2 emissions could vary between 71.73% and 65.39%, depending on the type of worker considered.

As already reported in the last article today, the number of structures scattered throughout the national territory that make up the NotOnlyDesk network has exceeded 65 units. Already a year and a half after its conception, the service is therefore bringing considerable benefits in terms of the possibility of managing spaces and structures and therefore the consequent reduction of per capita pollution produced by cities. Of course we are only at the beginning of the path, but as in the case of Objective 8, also for point number 11 NotOnlyDesk intends to have its say and contribute to the realisation of the Agenda plan.