The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will seek cooperation from private businesses and government agencies by allowing their staff to work from home on Monday and Tuesday next week, in anticipation of increased air pollution.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said yesterday that the BMA has revised the criteria for the implementation of working from home in the capital.
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If the air quality reaches the orange level in 35 of the city’s 50 districts for three days in a row, or the red level in five districts, working from home will be activated immediately.
Chadchart said that city officials, in cooperation with traffic police, will check exhaust emissions of vehicles twice a day, from 9am-noon and from 1pm-3pm Monday to Saturday, to ease airborne pollution.
