The use of teleconferencing by BT staff worldwide has reduced BT’s carbon footprint by at least 97,000 tonnes of CO2 and eliminated more than 860,000 face-to-face meetings.
The February 2007 survey by the University of Bradford and SustainIT looked at the economic, environmental and social impact of teleconferencing at BT. A sample of 6,000 BT staff from across the company were surveyed on their use of teleconferencing, with the findings extended to BT as a whole and annualised. The use of conferencing and collaboration services enable people to conduct meetings with colleagues via telephone, video or web. BT believes this has facilitated speedier decision making, increased productivity and a reduction in associated travel costs.
The survey showed that every conference call that replaced a meeting saved a minimum of 40kg of travel-related CO2. Air travel accounted for 48 per cent of avoided miles, but only 8 per cent of avoided trips.
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