Regus experiences a 230% increase in Video Communication across UK centres

The aviation crisis sparked by the volcanic eruption in Iceland left millions of individuals stranded around the globe, and put international business in crisis with displaced executives and cancelled meetings.

However Regus, the world’s largest provider of innovative workplace solutions, can give testament to the resilience of UK business, seeing a 230% increase in video communication over the last week, helping to alleviate the problem of displacement and enabling business to continue as usual.

Since the situation began last Thursday, demand for virtual meetings has been unprecedented. Across Europe week-on-week demand increased by 180%, whilst on Monday calls to Regus call centres were 450% above the daily average. The website has also been inundated.

Mark Dixon CEO of Regus comments: “This crisis has moved video communication to the very front of business people’s minds as a high quality, cost effective alternative to international business travel.”

” More than 80% of the increase we have seen has been from organisations new to Regus and new to video communication. The overwhelming message is that next time they’re contemplating business travel they’ll reach for their VC remote not their passport.”

“The whole experience has been a wake up call for businesses on their dependence on air travel, which let us not forget is costly on both tight budgets and effective working time as well as damaging to the environment. Our research suggests that VC can reduce business travel costs by up to 75% costs with negligible carbon emissions.”

Companies from around the globe are embracing the flexibility of video communication.

President and CEO Steve Delity of Rapid Micro Biosystems Inc. located in Bedford Massachusetts says: “We do a lot of international business, the grounding of flights for such a long time could have been seriously debilitating. However, instead of cancelling our business critical meetings we opted for a video link up instead. It gave us the ability to maintain contact with our customers and partners, so it’s been business as usual for us.”

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