Earth Day Initiative: Video Conferencing Technologies Align with Green Planet Initiatives

Videoconferencing benefits companies and the environment equally. It reduces resource consumption and carbon emissions, aligning with green planet initiative. Why spending additional time, effort, money and other resources while video conferencing technologies can do all that in additions to preserving our environment? Below are a few good reasons why video conferencing system should be used daily at work:

1) Videoconferencing Systems reduce the need to travel for meetings. By eliminating long distance and domestic business trips, we are reducing carbon footprint emissions by airplanes, trains, cars and other transportations.

2) Videoconferencing Systems allow employees to work from home and collaborate through video conferencing technologies. It reduces carbon footprint caused by morning and afternoon commuters, reducing air and noise pollution at the greatest extend. In additions, it gives employees greater flexibilities to balance life and work, thus promoting healthy living.

3) Videoconferencing system is also used by many companies in providing prompt technical support, project management and logistic support to improve customers satisfactions.

4)  Videoconferencing system also help cut down operating expenses, such as office utilities (electricity, water), office supplies (stationeries, paper waste, printer's ink). By reducing operating expenses, companies generate higher profit and return-on-investment (ROI). Does it not give your investors a brilliant smile reading your financial report?

From corporate brand management perspective, the deployment of video conferencing technologies helps reinforce a company's identity and image with its customers, business partners, and the public.