Calculate how much you’ll save by having a long distance meeting rather than a face-to-face meeting when some of you have to travel. You can calculate for one person or multiple.

1. Choose if the person/people is/are travelling by car, boat or plane.

2. Fill in where the person is travelling to and from. If you do not know fuel prices and such, do not change the value. Fill in the gross monthly salary prior to tax reductions.

3. Fill in how many are travelling that distance.

4. Press “Add”. This trip has now been saved.

5. Add all planned travels for the meeting. Press “Add” in between.

6. Press “Calculate” and you will see how much you have saved by having a long distance meeting.

The Online Meeting Calculator™ was developed by Ulrika Eklund, one of the authors of Online meetings - efficiency, accessibility and creativity. Feel free to contact me with questions or ideas on how we can become better planet keepers or better at long distance meetings: ulrika@ueklund.se

The car trip is based on Google Maps km, current fuel prices, and how much the car consumes/100 km. Standard is 8 litres/100 km.

The train trip is based on Google Maps km. You add your own approximate ticket price.

Plane trips are based on Google Maps km with a mean value of 11 cent/mile and a standard cost of 50 USD. The average airspeed is 752 km/h.

We estimate the payroll on gross salary/month x the employer’s contribution, 31,42%, divided by 168 hours.

Emmissions per CO₂ are based on values from http://www.utslappsratt.se (“emmissions right”)

Car

Plane

Train

Enter a correct value

A long-distance meeting saves you this:

Travel costs:

Payrolls:

In total:

CO₂:

Time: