Let Virtual Online Collaboration Meetings Improve Your Carbon Footprint and Your Bottom Line!

Greening Fujitsu Services How Virtual Meetings Can Improve Your Carbon Footprint and Your Bottom Line
	In December 2007 Datamonitor’s consulting team conducted an online survey to 1,920 Fujitsu Services EMEA employees to examine the environmental, economic and social impact of conferencing and collaboration within the organisation and to explore the opportunities to replace in-person meetings that require travel with Genesys Meeting Center. To download the full whitepaper report, click here >>

Below are the main conclusions drawn from the results:

Virtual meetings are practically as successful as in-person meetings
It is clear that replacing in-person meetings with virtual meetings is the easiest way to reduce travelling to meetings.

Individuals can help to reverse climate change
According to the UK Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), road transportation is the second largest source of CO2 emissions in the UK.

What’s the true cost of business travel?
Meeting with colleagues and customers is critical to any organisation. However, travelling to meetings can be counterproductive, as it incurs direct expenses for the company and has a negative impact upon productivity.

The financial and personal cost of business travel
Environmental damage is not the only consequence of unnecessary business travel.

A typical meeting journey emits 15 times more CO2 than the daily power requirements of a three bedroom house
Every time a Fujitsu Services employee travels to a meeting, the company incurs transportation, food and/or lodging costs. Datamonitor estimates that Fujitsu Services spends an average of £121 ($239) for each avoidable trip taken by an employee to participate in a meeting.

Small changes = big benefits
Small incremental changes in the way that business is conducted can generate large benefits for the environment and for the company itself.

Fujitsu Services' workforce in EMEA can reduce their per capita carbon footprint by approximately 200 kg (441 lb) of CO2 per annum by substituting as little as 10% of in-person meetings that require travel with an online Genesys meeting.

The cumulative effect of a 10% reduction in business travel would prevent 4,689 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere, while saving Fujitsu Services EMEA £6.6m (or $13.04m) in travel costs!