Office workers who leave computers on all night 'add to global warming'
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Published: 06 October 2006
Don't just switch off the television, switch off the computer too. Office workers who leave two million computers on every night are speeding up climate change, according to new research.
One in five white-collar workers told a national survey that they left their computers on at least three times a week, wasting more than £100m of electricity every year.
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