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Communication firm O2 is aiming to cut 500,000 miles from business car travel over the next three years for its staff and business customers.
The cuts, which should amount to a saving of more than 160,000 tonnes of CO2, are part of what the firm claims is the UK's biggest flexible working initiative.
O2 tested the option of shutting its head office for one day earlier this month and letting more than 2500 employees work from home.
"The pilot aimed to push the boundaries of what is possible through flexible working and will underpin O2's contingency plans to manage expected travel disruption and delays during the summer's Olympics," said an O2 spokesman.
"With one-third of the UK's businesses expected to encourage their staff to work flexibly this summer, O2 will share learnings from the pilot with other organisations, to support them in their plans for managing the impact of a range of events during the summer months."
O2 will evaluate reductions to electricity usage, CO2 emissions and travel time as employees swap their usual journey to work in favour of working from a remote location, usually their home.
O2 business director, Ben Dowd, said: "We believe a cultural step-change is underway affecting staff and businesses, as work increasingly becomes something we do, rather than a place that we go.
"Today's office-wide flexible working initiative is an opportunity for us to take the next step on our flexible working journey and demonstrate the opportunity and potential available to British businesses today.
"By sharing experiences from across our business, from business divisions to operations, we hope to encourage more organisations to help their workforce become mobile."
This month's HQ shutdown wasn't rushed into. For two months leading up to it, a team of 20 people undertook meticulous planning to deliver the firm's first ever fully flexible working day, ensuring employees had access to the necessary technology tools, services and support to enable them to work completely remotely for the entire day.
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