Since the start of the Corona pandemic at the latest, digital meetings have been booming: Zoom, Teams and Skype now accompany our working day; many companies are moving meetings, conferences and even training sessions to the digital network. This has some advantages: By eliminating business trips and travel to meetings, companies save money - and the environment is happy, too: fewer business trips also means fewer CO2 emissions. So should we only hold meetings online?
No, many companies think. After all, meetings in the "real world" can still make sense, especially for critical negotiations, further training and team-building measures. "Zoom is no solution," was also the headline of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2020, referring to a study by Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann, who found that important know-how is best passed on in person. The Corona pandemic has prompted us to question which business trips make sense and which don't - encouragingly, according to the results of a study by SAP Concur, many companies now want to adapt their travel policies to make meetings greener. Green meetings are on the rise. In this post, we'll take you step-by-step through what's involved in sustainable meetings.