Survey says: Companies at all levels of green, but most are trying!

So for all of you who took the Green Quiz, and wondered what we learned from it…here’s some good intel!

This survey shows that while companies are all at different phases in their green missions, environmental initiatives are certainly on everyone’s radar these days and reducing business travel has become a major focus of many corporate efforts.

Now we have to say we’re impressed with your choice of “going green” policy changes…when we asked what your company is doing to cut back on it’s carbon footprint, the top response was providing conferencing tools to cutback on travel (66%).

Just how involved are the employees in their companies' quest to be green? The survey found that to cut down on travel, teams are using phone conference calls (76%), Web conferences (63%) and video conferences (50%).

Telecommuting was also a big hit with respondents. Seventy-one percent said their companies enable employees to telecommute on a full or part-time basis. Of those supporting telecommuting, 25 percent say their companies actively encourage the practice. Other popular responses for how companies are becoming “green” in the workplace include recycling (61 percent) and working with environmentally-friendly vendors (29 percent). When it comes to awareness of green issues overall, only 31 percent of employees know their company’s carbon footprint and another 31 percent reported that their company is planning to complete a carbon footprinting project within the next year.

Businesses are an important group to target with green issues. Avoiding travel by using conferencing is a change businesses can make that is immediate and easy to implement. They can easily reduce their footprint without expensive changes to their product or processes...it’s simply a change in behavior.

And that’s what it’s all about. Since we started this blog, we’ve wanted to make sure you know the choices you can make to be green, and that it’s all about little changes in your behavior that make the difference!

Carolyn Campbell
Senior Director, Marketing Communications
InterCall

Comments

[Miracle Everett]

How great to see everyone is getting so involved! It's very exciting. How hope this trend continues and the number of people consciously working together to stop climate change keeps going up!

[Anne Guenther]

It's interesting to see the trend of companies towards promoting and incorporating telecommuting into their business culture. With sky-rocketing gas prices and the need to go Green, telecommuting could become a standard component of employee hiring packages.

Are there any statistics that show the increase productivity from telecommuting? This could further help build the business case for telecommuting.

[Cassandra Bennett]

I was really surprised to learn that 25% of companies promote telecommuniting. This really indicates a new era of trust between a corporation and the employee which is very refreshing in a time when employees are more willing to job jump. To me this shows a sign of good will on the corporation’s side that I think most employees are yearning for. Now they are providing an extra incentive to stay at a company that treats adults like adults to get their job done. Very inspiring!