Our lives now are dominated by the Green issue. It has moved from an alternative way of living into a huge industry. We have Green politicians on all sides of the government, petroleum companies selling green petrol, good old home grow organic vegetables and livestock, compulsory recycling to minimise the landfills, international government bodies meeting to set pollution emission limits and pop stars singing for a greener world.
It’s a subject wrapped in paradoxes that is becoming close to dogma and if we let it a subject that will be preached at us by the media, it’s very quickly becoming a corporate must have.
As a technology base company it’s very hard to promote your products as green. For one thing their housed in huge air conditioned buildings 24/7, constantly using power and built from components that are very quickly superseded and designed for a short batch run.
Personally I believe that we can only promote our own lifestyles and views / actions on the green side of business. One thing we can demonstrate is that technology coupled with a business green strategy will allow individuals and businesses to realise their own green ambitions. All sounds a little high brow but my point is that with a clear understanding of businesses goals, intertwined with its individual green objectives and the right choice of technology the combined goals will make it greener.
As a company we promote and work with businesses to enable staff to work whenever and wherever they need. We promote the use of hosted services be they voice, email or data sharing. We use these products ourselves to keep our work and home life balance.
We know through our own experiences that hosted solutions have reduced our office hardware requirements and home working equipment needs. Using laptops and/or smartphones combined with portable VoIP phones working from home or anywhere is simple – unplug from office then plug in at any web point to recreate the office.
This is turn has reduced our staffs travel times and expenses – as there’s no need to keep returning to the office to communicate or access our company systems.
We are aware that it’s a fine line stating that these hosted services help businesses with their green ambitions. But it does provide a means to meet them.
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