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Environmental impact drops down list of concerns for IT managers

Survey found belief that government is pushing green IT just to boost tax revenue

What impact on the environment?

Senior IT professionals are increasingly indifferent about the impact their businesses are having on the environment, according to research.

A study carried out by document management specialist Version One found that 86 per cent of senior IT managers are concerned about the negative impact their company is having on the environment, down 12 per cent with an identical survey carried out by the vendor in February 2007.

The results shown that 48 per cent of those polled said that they were very concerned about the environment impact of IT compared with 56 per cent in February 2007.

In the latest survey, 12 percent of the IT managers questioned said they were not concerned about their company’s environmental impact, compared with just one per cent in the 2007 survey. This year, some of the respondents have suggested that the UK government is pushing green agendas simply to raise tax revenue.

The study says that one of the respondents, an IT manager at a large healthcare organisation said: “What impact on the environment?”

The remaining two per cent of the respondents did not know whether they should be concerned or not concerning their organisations’ environmental impact.

Some 100 senior IT professionals, including directors and managers at UK public and private sector organisations took part in the survey.

Environmental impact drops down list of concerns for IT managers

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