Journal
Saturday,Sep 26 2009, 10:14:30 AMGoing Green at Your Work Place
With the rising concern on global warming, enterprises are planning, and working on reducing their carbon emissions. Training the employees and inspiring them to work together on carbon reduction is very important. Small changes can add up to making a big difference in terms of carbon reductions, whether through turning lights off after leaving a room, offering a friend a lift to work or reusing your scrap paper, or using bio diesel as fuel for your vehicle .
Every company has a responsibility to reduce its carbon emissions, but it should not become a burden. By educating staff and encouraging their involvement, the responsibility can be shared and a sense of ownership achieved.
Adopting workflow methods which save carbon footprints, by saving time and electricity can of course help the “green cause”.
A huge chunk of business communication occurs through e-mails, even now. While forwarding an e-mail to a team mate, we actually are leaving many copies of the same e-mail on the hard discs; one in our inbox, one in our sent folder, and one in our team mate’s inbox. This is not an efficient way as it doesn’t save us any time and we are using unnecessary hard disc space. Taroby handles this situation more efficiently by allowing teams to share e-mail accounts among the team mates. With Taroby the need to forward the mails doesn’t arise within a team, as everyone sees the same inbox. It saves everyone a considerable amount of time, and hard disc space thereby reducing power consumption.
A lot of employees travel long distances to reach their work places. This travel consumes a lot of carbon in terms of fuel for their vehicles etc. Taroby provides opportunity for such employees to work from home more often, if face to face communication is not much required for their job. Virtual teams can be promoted by enterprises by using tools like Skype, Taroby etc in order to cut the transportation cost.