OK I need your help. I've basically got the go-ahead to implement some sort of voluntary office competition, in which whoever reduces their utility bills the most wins a prize.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to out-do all of the logistical complications. First, you obviously have to go by percentage since we don't all live in the same-sized houses. But do you go month-by-month? If so, I could write off every other month by putting my heat on 85 degrees and easily winning the following month. And creating a baseline represents difficulties ... ideally we would compare all the bills for 12 months of 2009 to 12 months of 2008, but that's too administratively complex.
So I'm throwing my hands up. Ideas?
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I agree that creating a twelve-month baseline would be amazing, but it is unlikely to happen. Perhaps create a less-ambitious baseline, something like three months before the competition was announced (an effort to thwart those who would spike the baseline month to make negative change easier during the competition). This, though, faces a lot of the same problems as the twelve-month baseline.
ReplyDeleteIf you are trusting of your coworkers' honesty you could have them do the data entry for you on a shared Google Doc that you format to automatically calculate the baseline for each person. This stills carries the problem that each person must collect their own data (should be painless, but probably isn't) and actually enter it in (the incentive of the prize should be enough to force this once the data is in hand).
I will keep thinking about this, but for now I am tapped.
Thanks; and for the record I do trust my coworkers on this.
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