This report offers a data-driven analysis of the potential for telework to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of Thurston WA region state and local government.

Based on a conservative set of assumptions drawn from a synthesis of over 4,000 data sources, we calculate that the impact of twice weekly telework by 30% of the region’s public sector workforce could:

• Save approximately $58 million per year
• Reduce vehicle miles traveled by 14 million miles per year
• Eliminate over one million vehicle trips per year
• Reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of planting over 100,000 trees