Small UK business employees are more likely to help reduce carbon emissions than employees at larger firms

E.ON surveyed 1,200 UK workers and found that in small firms employees are significantly more likely to help curb energy use and carbon emissions by turning off lights and computers and recycling, than employees at larger companies, who say bureaucracy hampers their efforts.

More than a third of the workers from small firms said they had significantly changed their behaviour to cut carbon emissions, and 90 percent claimed they changed their behaviour at least a little.

Less than a fifth of the employees at larger firms said they had changed their behaviour significantly. And more than two-thirds of the respondents from larger firms said they do not feel they are in control of efforts to reduce energy use, that they have no influence over the facilities department at their firms.

So employees of smaller businesses have greater sway over energy consumption and carbon emissions because of the longer chain of command in larger firms.

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