Vodafone has successfully cut 26.1% of its business flights by utilising its own technology as part of WWF’s One in Five Challenge – a programme that helps companies to reduce their reliance on flying, in favour of lower carbon alternatives.
Vodafone encourage their employees to work flexibly and provide them with the most up to date communications technology to help them do just that. Employees can communicate with each other through voice, video, instant messaging or web collaboration software by simply clicking their colleague’s name on their PC.
In a single year, Vodafone has:
- Cut: business flights by 3,749 down to 10,630
- Slashed: distances flown by 2.46 million kilometres
- Reduced: CO2 emissions by more than 617 tonnes
- Reduced: travel costs by nearly a third
“We’ve made some improvements to how we work at Vodafone which mean I can use video conferencing, instant messenger, online collaboration software and telephone conferencing to communicate with my colleagues in a more efficient and flexible way. So now I don’t have to take time to travel, and can arrange collaborative responses and actions much quicker. I’m getting more done, working better with people across the organisation, and have dramatically reduced the miles I fly and drive.”
Tim Harding, Vodafone UK
The key benefits of reduced travel have been a reduction in Vodafone’s travel expenditure by nearly a third, decreased CO2 emissions, as well as increased productivity and efficiency, instant communications, and improved employee work-life balance.
WWF’s One in Five Challenge helps companies and government cut their costs as well as their carbon emissions by flying less and using alternative ways of staying connected.
To read more about the One in Five Challenge: http://www.anywhereworking.org/wwfs-one-in-five-challenge/
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