HP: Employee Travel
From Lauraibm
HP recognizes the impact on climate change of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that result from employee business air travel. Emissions have increased roughly in line with business growth.
Carbon dioxide emissions from employee business air travel, 2004-2006 [Tonnes CO2]
2004 = 253,000, 2005 = 270,000 and 2006 = 289,000
We encourage employees to use teleconferencing whenever possible, to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation and to cut costs. Employees frequently use web-based meetings and conference calls for training and collaboration. We provide several solutions, including the HP Virtual Room and the HP Halo Virtual Collaboration System.
HP owned cars and planes HP has a small number of aircraft and a fleet of company cars for sales and services employees. The aircraft represent a small portion of our total CO2 emissions from employee business travel. CO2 emissions from our U.S. and Canadian auto fleet totaled 89,400 tonnes CO2 in 2006. CO2 emissions from our Europe, Middle East and Africa auto fleet totaled 85,400 tonnes CO2 in 2006. We are expanding data collection to include our fleet in Asia Pacific and Japan.
Employee commuting While CO2 emissions from employee commuting are not directly within HP's control, we have programs designed to reduce them. Our global Telework program allows employees to work from home whenever consistent with business needs.
We currently have nearly 13,000 employees worldwide who work exclusively from home offices. Approximately 10,400 of those employees work in the United States and Canada. We estimate that in 2006, the Telework program saved almost 2.5 million round-trip commutes, avoiding approximately 65 million miles of road travel and almost 28,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Other employees work at an HP site only a few days a week. We are considering how to calculate the CO2 savings for these employees as well.
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