Getting the BALANCE right!

How officetalk Relay can support your business in reducing your "Carbon Footprint"

Today, most businesses are looking for ways to be more flexible in their work practises that can improve the quality of life for their employees, the quality of the environment that we all live in and their bottom line.

Many businesses are starting to develop strategies for working from home/remote working that is straightforward to implement across the organisation, yet still meets the company’s corporate business and environmental objectives. The use of Hosted services such as officetalk Relay can improve productivity, process efficiency and workforce collaboration as well as produce significant business support cost savings.

Lower fuel usage – increase productivity

A recent study by Oxford University show that flexible working/home working can make a positive contribution to reducing your business carbon footprint. Just think of the fuel and frustration used in the daily commute to work. Using officetalk Relay your staff can avoid the peak time traffic problems, which in turn means less journeys and less carbon being produced, yet still be in touch with all the corporate systems.

Now with the near universal availability of broadband services you can offer your employees all the applications that they would find at their office desks without the need to travel. As well as creating viewing and updating document they can share calendars, email, lists and many other corporate assets in a safe and secure way - all they need is a browser. By encouraging home working and the use of hosted services you can reduce the energy demands on your business and shrink your application support costs.

Make your business more Carbon Friendly

Aside from flexible working, there is a number of ways that IT can be used to help businesses become more environmentally friendly.

Businesses today are changing at an accelerating rate and the physical office of yesterday is becoming the "virtual office" of tomorrow. Today's business documents are stored on centralised servers or end-user's PC's and laptops rather than the filing cabinets crammed with paper of yesteryear. Less paper may mean more trees but with PCs, printers and servers running all day – and in some cases all night, technology is becoming the major consumer of energy within all industries.

New business processes that can help the reduce power consumption are being developed ahead of the inevitable legislation that will follow. It's now time for some fresh thinking that meets the demands of the 21st century on both the business and environmental fronts.

By moving to hosted services, forward thinking companies can deliver up-to-the-minute business advantage that's built on a strong foundation of safe and secure collaborative information sharing. This new approach to an old problem helps reduce your business IT and transport, Carbon Footprint whilst improving employee's important work life balance.

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