One of four enterprises choose distance meetings

Many enterprises prefer to replace physical meetings requiring travel in favour of teleconferencing, web-based or video meetings. Roughly every fourth enterprise, with ten or more employees, has a policy in place for preferring distance meetings instead of physical meetings requiring travel.

The percentage of enterprises that adjust priorities away from travel increases in relation to the size of the enterprise. Nearly 60 percent of the enterprises with 250 or more employees do so compared to 20 percent of the enterprises with 1-9 employees

Nearly 40 percent of the enterprises have a goal of reducing their energy consumption related to IT use, e.g. by using screen savers, requiring computers to be turned off at the end of the day, reduced printing and energy-efficient operation.

Nearly one third of enterprises consider their energy consumption when choosing a new system or new hardware. The percentage of enterprises that make demands of suppliers having environmental certification is slightly lower. Roughly 23 percent of the enterprises with 10 or more employees required this while among the smaller enterprises with 1-9 employees the percentage was 16 percent.

Have an environmental policy that means the following Percentage of enterprises 2009, 1 employee or more, by size of enterprise, percentage

Every fifth enterprise has e-commerce sales

During 2008 more than every fifth enterprise, with 10 or more employees, received orders electronically over a website or through automated information exchange such as EDI. Every other enterprise, among the larger enterprises with 250 or more employees, received such orders. The majority of the e-commerce sales, roughly 60 percent of such sales value, took place in Sweden and another fourth took place in other EU countries. As many as three out of five enterprises have ordered goods or services electronically themselves.

Definitions and explanations

E-commerce is the ordering of goods and services over the Internet or other computer networks. The order can occur over a homepage or by automated information exchange such as EDI. Payment and delivery need not occur electronically. Orders using normal e-mail are not included.