A demonstration of how virtual meetings can enhance sustainability in a corporate context: Quantified benefits of virtual meetings through video conferencing. Issue 1 (3rd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: F. Guerin, Turlough
• Is Part Of: Environmental quality management. Volume 27:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 81
• Publication Date: 2018-01-03
• Subjects: carbon emissions -- carbon reduction -- conferencing -- constraints -- information communications technology (ICT) -- nonadoption -- travel -- video conferencing -- virtual meetings -- financial -- sustainability; Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Periodicals; Environmental engineering -- Periodicals; 658.408
• DOI: 10.1002/tqem.21515
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1088-1913

Abstract

Abstract: Video conferencing (VC) offers benefits to businesses and organizations. A three‐month trial was undertaken across a telecommunications company in Australia to evaluate the use of VC benefits monitoring software to capture data and calculate utilization and business travel savings from air and car travel for individual VC end points across the company. The results from the trial were used by the finance and administration department of the company to promote VC usage and, at the same time, to introduce a nonessential air travel ban, which led to annualized cost savings of up to 40% on business as usual.