Enabling a Green Workforce

  
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Enabling your workforce to be "green" is not only good for the environment, but it can also lead to substantial cost savings and better productivity. Here are a few tips that will help make it easy to enable a "green" workforce.

Telecommuting/Working Remotely

A workforce that has the ability to work from home/remotely can reap a great amount of benefits.

In addition to secure email and corporate network access, IT departments can leverage the many features and benefits of Connect Pro web conferencing to allow their workforce to telecommute. Connect Pro meetings are designed to allow users to collaborate, so users can have rich experiences by sharing their computer screen, presenting content, transferring files, and communicating through a webcam and computer microphone.

Along with standard group meetings, Connect Pro can also be used for various other types of important meetings, such as IT war-room collaboration projects, remote help desk calls, department all-hands meetings, and e-learning and training sessions.

One last major benefit to using Connect Pro with a remote workforce is IT departments do not have to invest in any special equipment or personal computer configurations. Users can participate and host Connect Pro meetings with any computer running the Flash plug-in. In addition to this universal accessibility, Connect Pro meetings can be accessed from any network, and can be configured as a hosted solution, or an in-house, licensed solution.

Virtual Conferences

A remote workforce can provide many benefits, but many companies still have many travel needs associated with conferences and customer or partner visits. These travel needs not only cost a substantial amount of money, but they also affect our environment. Travelers can leave a large carbon footprint that is the result of airline and rental car/taxi fuel and hotel usage. Using Connect Pro to replace the need for travel for conferences and customer visits can reduce these costs and carbon footprints.

Virtual conferences can be easily hosted by using many of the features of Connect Pro. Hosts of a Connect Pro run conference will be able interact with the participants of the conference through video, audio, chat, screenshare, presentations, and polling questions. Additionally, these sessions are able to be recorded for later viewing. Running a virtual conference will save companies costs in terms of setup, facilities, lodging, travel and food. Read this article for a great example of how Adobe used Connect Pro to turn a traditional, multi day conference into a successful virtual conference.

The Three R's of Connect Pro Usage

One more way enable a green workforce is to use Connect Pro to encourage the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Reduce: Reduce the time it takes to setup and enter a web conference by using Connect Pro.
• Reuse: Reuse any Connect Pro meeting room for a variety of purposes by leveraging the power of using effective layouts
• Recycle: Recycle a Connect Pro meeting room into a template