Virtual Assistants can easily be regarded as an eco-friendly option for business owners. VAs help reduce the carbon footprint in many ways.
Reducing your transport impact: because VAs make all contributions remotely, there’s no commuting to be done. This cuts down on the consumption of travel. This makes a significant saving in transport fuel emissions compared to hiring a permanent member of staff who works from your office.
Reducing electricity wastage: VAs reduce your carbon footprint in other, less direct ways as well. For example, offices are not great places for energy saving. Lights, printers, and other equipment are left often on all the time, using unnecessary energy. VAs don’t have a water cooler in their house, or an air conditioning system.
Reducing plastic consumption: when people work in an office, they buy lunches, snacks, and drinks – whether they buy them within the workplace’s canteen or on their way in, but these items are usually presented in a way which: 1) attracts the customer to purchase the item and, 2) combats the convenience of the situation, so both solutions usually involve single-use plastics. One of the benefits of hiring a VA is reducing that type of plastic consumption – no takeaway coffee cups, no sandwich wrappers, and no salad pots.
Our carbon footprint, therefore, is a measure of the environmental impact of your firm when it comes to the greenhouse gas effect. Our goal should be to keep your carbon footprint to a minimum, and also to implement whatever measures you can in order to offset your footprint (referred to as carbon offsetting).
Hire me for just the hours you need, on a one-off, ad-hoc basis, or as an ongoing assistant in your business, and know that in doing so you’ll be helping to save the planet one VA task at a time.
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