Virtual Office - the Green Solution

Eco office is the way forward. Or so it seems! Most people are becoming more conscious of the eco damage that we are doing to the planet. From recycling household waste to children in school recycling paper and plastic bottles, the impact on the planet will hopefully ensure a brighter future for generations to come.

Our carbon footprint doesn’t stop at home, but continues in the work place. Not all business are set up for recycling or reducing their carbon footprint and frankly most of them are not interested because of the costs. For example if we wanted to recycle paper we would simply put it in our recycle bin and this would we recycled for free, whereas a business would have to pay for this facility.

One of the advantages of a Virtual office is that you are reducing your carbon footprint. How????

You don’t have to drive to an office, thus you don’t have to use fuel for your car. You will also have a reduced mileage, which means that you will have less wear and tear on the car and on the tyres, thus less production costs for replacements and thus less carbon footprint.

You don’t have to light, heat and maintain a real office, again reducing the carbon footprint not just in the utilities but also in the maintenance,.

This also extends to the waste you create as a business. Paper is one of the biggest waste products from any office and 76.4% of paper in business is not recycled. I am sure someone will do the calculations but if you think the average box of paper is 1 tree then you will soon get an idea of how much paper is wasted and how many trees could be saved.

Its inevitable that business will soon be taxed if they do not actively recycle or reduce their carbon foot print which is why you should consider a virtual office solution right from the outset. A virtual Office solution is one of the best options to make your business operate greener.

Eco offices are a thing of the future and buy looking to the future and making the decision now to go green, may just save you a lot of time and money in the future. Virtual offices are becoming more and more popular as the outlay costs are minimal, you can set most of the costs as a fixed monthly cost, thus allowing you to budget better and as its all done online, contracts, agreements, statements and invoices can all be done online which reduces postal mail and the carbon footprint that generates.

Written By: Nicky Smith (Business Futures UK)