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-- As
gas prices continue to rise, one Silicon Valley tech giant is cutting its
travel budget. Hewlett Packard figures videoconferencing is the answer to
higher travel costs, so it is quadrupling the number of videoconferencing,
or virtual meeting studios to avoid thousands of employee plane trips.
"We will eliminate at
least 20,000 trips per year. If you look at it in terms of what that means
for the environment, that's actually the equivalent of taking about 6,500
passenger cars off the road for one year," said HP spokesman Ross
Camp.
Companies are also
installing GPS navigation devices to cut down on travel time for employees
roaming around new places.
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More Virtual Meetings Translate Into
Less Travel, Cutting Both Costs and Emissions
Analysts: Green a Priority
& Videoconferencing a Key Tool for Greener Planet
Industry research groups
report North America has now joined Asian, South American, European and
Middle Eastern companies in looking to improve their organizations'
environmental impact. IDC's "Green IT a Natural Fit for Enterprise
Executives" (Doc # prUS20932407 published Oct. 31, 2007) found 50 percent
of U.S. companies rate the improvement of their organization's
environmental impact as either the highest or next to highest priority
among senior management, while 42 percent believe it is most important or
important for IT to take a leading role in making it happen.
A Gartner report entitled
"Green IT: the New Industry Shockwave" by Simon Mingay, predicts,
"We can expect to see a flurry of climate change legislation during the
next two years. Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 25 percent by 2020 and
60 to 80 percent by 2050 are likely targets." The report goes on to state,
"An obvious opportunity lies in travel substitution, using video
conferencing technologies, and using communication and collaboration tools
to build an infrastructure and culture that enable and encourage remote
collaboration." |