Hybrid Working – the business case for reducing business miles
An opportunity to reduce your carbon footprint?
In the pre-Covid world, most defence organisations clocked up thousands of business road and air miles to liaise with customers, suppliers, other sites / facilities / teams. The bottom-line benefits of the lockdown loss of this expenditure have not gone unnoticed and most defence organisations are rethinking what constitutes essential business travel.
Well before Covid-19, reducing your carbon footprint was a growing priority for consumers and businesses alike. Some defence companies had established green travel plans to encourage staff to travel in a more environmentally sustainable way to reduce costs, improve the health and morale and boost environmental credentials.
To add further focus to the environmental agenda, the Ministry of Defence published a Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach report in March 2021 with a commitment to ‘recognise both the necessity and opportunity to build on our existing successes in cutting carbon and mitigating Defence’s impact on the environment.’[1]
Your Hybrid Working Capability
Is your defence organisation is putting more thought into managing essential business travel in the new normal? Do you need wider help building your hybrid working capability? We’re here to help, no one has all the answers, there isn’t going to be one size fits all.
- The Hybrid Working Capability Diagnostic: Identify, in just 5 minutes, where the gaps are in your organisation’s hybrid working plans and what to do about them.
- Upskill your leaders, managers and teams to equip them for effective hybrid working with our hybrid working tailored training modules
- What are the implications of Hybrid Working for the defence sector? Treehouse has written a research whitepaper involving new and existing clients and have concluded there are 7 complications around Hybrid Working that organisations need to explore.
If you’re not sure where to start, our Capability Diagnostic will help you identify what your organisation’s current capability is and then provide recommendations for improvement.
Sources
LawDonut, Environmental business travel
[1] Corporate report Ministry of Defence, (March 2021), Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach