Installing video conferencing equipment saves on travel costs, but there are ecological savings too. In addition, companies can work smarter and make more money when they install video conferencing equipment.
There are several reasons which explain why your company would wish to install modern, top quality video conferencing equipment in each of your conference rooms and in other key facilities, but have you thought about how much more eco friendly your company may be if it depended more on videoconferencing and less on travel?
There's little question that video conferencing is a step up from a telephone conference call, but it's also a step up in terms of ecological responsibility from traveling to a meeting that would have been effectively handled without having to travel anywhere.
Once, some in business declined using videoconferencing. Today, the bias that some older executives had against videoconferencing has disappeared as equipment has improved. Jerky movements, poor sound quality and frequent, mysterious breakups are things of the past.
Reduce Travel And Save Resources
Perhaps it's clear that reducing the quantity of travel your staff have to endure saves money, but it also saves a company in so many other ways.
First, it saves on time lost at the airport, on planes and in cars. It also saves on personal time the employees lose when they are required to stay overnight in different city rather than returning to their families after their day of work. The benefits of having video conferencing apparatus installed and ready to use at a minute's notice involve more than simply savings, of course. Branches can also co-operate more often at a lesser cost, making allowance for better communication among your employees.
And a client who also has video conferencing equipment can communicate with you the moment she or he spots an issue. There isn't any travel delay and no need to requisition a rental car or train ticket from their finance department.
Going Beyond Travel Savings
The savings go beyond the simple, however.
In-person conferences need the usage of a lot of time, money and other resources to plan and pull off efficiently. Nonessential travel creates carbon emissions that would have been avoided, but an in-person meeting creates a whole world of paperwork, foam cups and paper plates that do not need to be used if nobody is going anywhere. Never mind the value of providing meals, refreshments and other facilities for people that visit your company. All of that money and all of those resources create trash, pollution and waste.
That just isn't a smart, ecologically friendly way to do business.
Even better, video conferencing can be recorded, so absent employees can review the tape when they return, virtually permitting them to be in 2 places at once. Recording also means that fewer people can go to a meeting in the first place as the recording can be shown to anyone who needs the information obtained in the meeting.
More importantly, those who don't need the information do not have to spend time sitting around in a meeting that turns out not to be of use to them.
Video conferencing for today's modern workplace provides benefits, savings and opportunities beyond the obvious. With the right apparatus installed in the right places, a company can become more productive and make more profit while saving money รข€" and saving the world as well.
There are several reasons which explain why your company would wish to install modern, top quality video conferencing equipment in each of your conference rooms and in other key facilities, but have you thought about how much more eco friendly your company may be if it depended more on videoconferencing and less on travel?
There's little question that video conferencing is a step up from a telephone conference call, but it's also a step up in terms of ecological responsibility from traveling to a meeting that would have been effectively handled without having to travel anywhere.
Once, some in business declined using videoconferencing. Today, the bias that some older executives had against videoconferencing has disappeared as equipment has improved. Jerky movements, poor sound quality and frequent, mysterious breakups are things of the past.
Reduce Travel And Save Resources
Perhaps it's clear that reducing the quantity of travel your staff have to endure saves money, but it also saves a company in so many other ways.
First, it saves on time lost at the airport, on planes and in cars. It also saves on personal time the employees lose when they are required to stay overnight in different city rather than returning to their families after their day of work. The benefits of having video conferencing apparatus installed and ready to use at a minute's notice involve more than simply savings, of course. Branches can also co-operate more often at a lesser cost, making allowance for better communication among your employees.
And a client who also has video conferencing equipment can communicate with you the moment she or he spots an issue. There isn't any travel delay and no need to requisition a rental car or train ticket from their finance department.
Going Beyond Travel Savings
The savings go beyond the simple, however.
In-person conferences need the usage of a lot of time, money and other resources to plan and pull off efficiently. Nonessential travel creates carbon emissions that would have been avoided, but an in-person meeting creates a whole world of paperwork, foam cups and paper plates that do not need to be used if nobody is going anywhere. Never mind the value of providing meals, refreshments and other facilities for people that visit your company. All of that money and all of those resources create trash, pollution and waste.
That just isn't a smart, ecologically friendly way to do business.
Even better, video conferencing can be recorded, so absent employees can review the tape when they return, virtually permitting them to be in 2 places at once. Recording also means that fewer people can go to a meeting in the first place as the recording can be shown to anyone who needs the information obtained in the meeting.
More importantly, those who don't need the information do not have to spend time sitting around in a meeting that turns out not to be of use to them.
Video conferencing for today's modern workplace provides benefits, savings and opportunities beyond the obvious. With the right apparatus installed in the right places, a company can become more productive and make more profit while saving money รข€" and saving the world as well.
About the Author:
Paul Fraser owner of a video conferencing equipment company in South Africa is an expert in video conferencing solutions. He enjoys seeing businesses succeed whether he has an investment in them or not.
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