Cut costs using technology
How colloboration can help my business
Audio and web conferencing can help small businesses to cut overheads. Here SmallBusiness.co.uk and Tim Duffy, CEO of MeetingZone, outline the key advantages.
Cut business travel
Conferencing and collaboration tools were never intended to replace face-to-face meetings. But there is a growing recognition that ‘virtual' meetings are just as productive as when all participants are in the same room. The result will be a drastic reduction to your travel costs.
Time efficient
By eliminating unnecessary business travel, SMEs are not only allowing their employees to spend more time at their desks helping customers, but are reducing the ‘soft costs' of unproductive dead time spent in traffic queues.
Space saving
Reduce the cost of expensive office space. As employees are able to communicate and collaborate with their colleagues, customers and suppliers without having to leave home, you can operate a ‘virtual office' and cut the overheads of your premises.
Flexible working
Government legislation recently extended the right to request flexible working to parents of children up to 16 years of age. This could result in an additional 4.5 million people requesting this ability. With audio and web conferencing technology small businesses can grant requests confident in the knowledge that their employees will be working as efficiently as if they were in the office. 
Going green
Using conferencing and collaboration solutions to reduce business travel are also decreasing the number of cars on the road - thus reducing CO2 emissions. And being an environmentally friendly business is fast becoming an essential marketing tool.
