Expensive home office: This is how drastically your heating costs rise when you work at home

The current work of many in the home office due to the Corona measures can drive up costs.

You should especially keep an eye on heating costs in winter.

According to calculations by the comparison portal Verivox, anyone who works from home instead of driving to the office in the winter months must expect around 4 percent higher heating requirements.

Depending on the heating system *, this could result in additional costs of up to 45 euros.

Anyone who works in the home office must expect significantly higher heating costs in 2021

Verivox makes the following calculation: If an employee stays in the home office from October up to and including March, he has to heat more than usual on around 120 days.

If the apartment is heated three degrees warmer during an eight-hour working day than during the out-of-home activity, the bottom line is an

.

When heating with

this means

with an

.

In the case of

an increase of around

planned.

The calculations are based on the average energy prices in October 2020. “In the coming year, consumers will have to be prepared for significantly higher heating costs.

If you work from home in two ways, ”said Verivox energy expert Thorsten Storck.

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The main reason is the

.

In addition, after the temporary reduction, VAT returns to the previous level.

Heating oil is also becoming more expensive because of the CO2 tax.

According to the comparison portals Check24 and Verivox, almost 300 basic gas suppliers have announced price increases averaging more than 6 percent.

With an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours, this leads to additional costs of over 90 euros.

Last year, according to calculations by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), households used

for the first time since 2015

.

The energy requirement has fallen by 3.2 percent to an average of 130 kilowatt hours per square meter of heated living space.

DIW had evaluated heating cost bills from the Essen energy service provider Ista for 300,000 apartment buildings.

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If one assumes that an employee in the home office operates a laptop (15W), a 17-inch monitor (30W) and an LED desk lamp (7W) for eight hours a day and uses the electric stove for half an hour, then

.

This is what Check24 reports.

Extrapolated

to the

for which the home office break is intended, additional costs of

arise

.

If someone works

, additional costs of

arise

Assumption: There are a total of around 260 working days per year.

After deducting 30 days of vacation and 10 public holidays, an employee spends 220 days in the home office.

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