Green MBA Program Saves Energy With Fewer Employees

Often considered to be at the cutting edge of the green business field, the Presidio Graduate School has once again, come up with a fairly unbelievable strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also saving the institution thousands of dollars in operating expenses.

How do they do it?

Well, it's complicated but, in general, the strategy revolves around a bone-crushing, top-down management approach to frustrating the school's well-intended and hard working staff. The goal is to eventually push staff to the point that they leave the school to find new jobs at other organizations.

How does making staff quit save energy?

Each staff member typically uses a desktop computer for 8 hours each day of the work week which generates the equivalent of .5 metric tons of CO2 annually. When you consider the fact that the school is now approaching a 70% employee turnover rate each year, these savings sure do add up!

But, how does the school operate without employees?

Herein lies the true innovation in Presidio's amazing new program. As more staff leave, the responsibilities they leave behind get shifted to the remaining staff. This results in even further increases in workload per employee which results in increased amounts of stress in the lives of the remaining employees. Making the jobs of remaining staff more difficult pushes that staff member closer to the point of wanting to quit. So, a cycle begins that actually accelerates the growth of the program.

Estimates from Bloomberg indicate that eventually the school will operate with zero emissions once all staff are gone and all that remains is the energy used by the school's server to run Moodle which, inside sources say will be offset through carbon credits.