A study by the Times newspaper has concluded that workers are increasingly turning to green transport programmes to get to and back from the office.

The paper discovered that there was a 6.9 percentage point rise in the number of workers being encouraged to take up car shares and public transport over the last 12 months. The proportion of workers interested in such schemes has now risen to 61.7 per cent, up from 54.8 per cent last year.

One encouraging trend to come out of the study is that staff interest with green initiatives could have declined as they and their bosses coped with economic distractions. The reverse appears to be true.

Underpinning this overall rise in companies' green scores are fundamental changes in corporate practice covering reducing waste, improved environmental training, encouragement of good green working practices and bosses willing to lead from the front.