Sustainability as a competitive differentiator
Logicalis is a global IT solutions business with over 7,000 people across 30 territories. The Group leadership team saw sustainability as a real way to stand out, with its own people and with customers, investors, and partners like Cisco and Microsoft, who increasingly prioritise NetZero leadership.
Business travel made up a significant share of its Scope 3 emissions, under Category 6. With teams regularly travelling across 30 countries to serve clients, the flights and ground transport added up quickly. But the leadership team knew that simply cutting travel wasn't an option. Customer relationships depend on meeting in person, and a global services business needs its people on the ground.
The challenge was to turn that commitment into measurable, credible action: cutting the environmental impact of travel while still letting the team meet customers and grow the business.
Data-driven policy, built on real trip data
Alongside a new sustainable travel policy, RouteZero gave the Group leadership team analysis and policy tools to understand, measure, and report lower-carbon journeys. These ranged from domestic trips by convenient public transport to long-haul routes on the most efficient flight of the day.
The approach was grounded in Logicalis's actual travel data, not industry averages. RouteZero looked at past bookings across the Group's 30 territories to find the biggest opportunities: which routes had good rail alternatives, which flights could move to more efficient carriers, and where small changes to timing would cut emissions by much more than their size suggests.
Every policy recommendation was specific, defensible, and fitted to how Logicalis teams actually travel. That made it easy for employees to adopt without changing how they work.
Logicalis cut costs and emissions, and travelled more kilometres to meet more customers. Costs fell 25% year on year, and emissions 42% against its baseline, while the business grew its reach. Changing how people travel mattered more than limiting whether they travel.
The focus on sustainability has categorically resulted in significant cost savings. Our emissions from travel have reduced 42% since we started the journey with RouteZero. And the cost of travel has also reduced significantly.
Since introducing our sustainable travel policy with RouteZero, our Group Team has travelled more but we’ve reduced emissions and saved costs, which is amazing!
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