How BYOD Can Boost Your Green Campaign
Two of the latest trends in business culture are environmentally friendly green campaigns and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) work environments. There are a few ways that a BYOD system can contribute to the success of your company's green campaign, as they both seek to use technology to increase everyday efficiency at the office.
BYOD is an office trend that encourages the use of employees' personally owned mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) for regular everyday business operations. There's a good chance that your office may even have integrated BYOD into its routine already. Forrester conducted a study concluding that at least 53% of office employees are using their personal devices for work. There are many benefits of an integrated BYOD work environment including increased employee satisfaction and productivity, and reduced overall technology expenses. Take a look at our previous blog posts about BYOD to learn more. Now, let's look at how BYOD can aid your company's green campaign by reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Reduce
The basic concept behind BYOD allows companies to reduce their technology and power usage. By allowing your employees to bring their own devices, you can reduce the amount of technology tools floating around the office.
BYOD environments carry the possibility of providing offices without workstations. PCs are currently the most practical computing options in the office, but there is certainly reason to believe that mobile devices could take over that position. More than ever before, technology is being produced that competes with and can even surpass the potential productivity of the average office computer. As even greater options are produced and bought for personal use in the future, your office can seize the opportunity to reduce its technology use in a few different ways.
- BYOD reduces power usage: Mobile devices require fractional amounts of energy to operate compared to the average PC, and are able to charge quickly for day-long, power-free use.
- BYOD reduces PC dependency: Employees who bring their own devices into work will not necessarily need PCs to perform their tasks.
- BYOD reduces hardware cost: BYOD eliminates the need to provide company cell phones to employees, as they obviously carry their own.
- BYOD helps reduce the amount of resources used to produce new PCs: The average PC uses 1.8 tons of raw material (about the same amount needed to produce a mid-size vehicle), and an average 240 kg of fossil fuels (about 80% of the energy it uses in its lifespan). Mobile technology requires significantly fewer resources for production.
- BYOD reduces print costs: Your company files can be stored online via a cloud solution and be accessed by all employees away from the restrictions of a stationary workstation to reduce the need for printing.