Employees at small and medium sized business (SMBs) are significantly more likely to take action to cut energy use and carbon emissions, such as turning of lights and computers and promoting recycling, than their counterparts at larger organisations.

That is the conclusion of a major survey of over 1,200 UK workers from energy giant E.ON, which also found that SMBs are more conducive to such measures.

The survey over a third of workers at small firms claimed to have significantly changed their behaviour to curb carbon emissions, while 90 per cent had claimed to have changed their behaviour at least a little. In contrast, less than a fifth of employees at larger multinational firms said they had changed their behaviour significantly.

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