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Our climate commitment
SoftwareOne ESG Report 2022
DACH Green Team
The DACH Green Team piloted a brand-new company travel policy, whereby employees were given the option of rail business travel, using a “BahnCard” which offers them discounts on their train travel. The regional travel team is also implementing car sharing schemes for business travellers, resulting in reduced carbon emissions and costs.
Due to the success of these initiatives in DACH, SoftwareOne will leverage them for the rest of the global organisation.
We’re not just employees, but global citizens too. In every decision we make, the DACH Green Team factors in not only profits, but also people and our planet.
Cloud Sustainability in practice
Cloud Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for our clients and the wider market.
As part of the FinOps Managed Service, SoftwareOne provided our expertise to one of our valued clients (annual AWS spend approximately €20 million) to calculate their quarterly cloud consumption of their executive leadership team.
Clients such as these are concerned about emissions reductions from an ethical and regulatory perspective. The initiative to develop Cloud Sustainability came from client concerns around their carbon reductions, amid forecasted changes in regulatory requirements. With regulatory requirements such as the CSRD1, becoming more stringent, Cloud Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for our clients and the wider market.
1. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Green Quarter
Green Quarter is an initiative that breaks up each quarter into one-month segments, focusing on different sustainability topics. It provides tips, tricks and facilites knowledge sharing amoung employees. These topics range from plastic-free living, to how to save water, to building your own office garden. Each article is shared on SoftwareOne’s Yammer Group2 which encourages others to join the conversations with their own ideas and successes.
The Green Team shares ‘Personal Stories’ that provide insight into the importance of the environment and sustainability. Not only were these ‘Personal Stories’ an introduction to the team members but they also highlighted various people’s passions. They show how it only takes small, simple changes to be able to live sustainably both at home and in the workplace.
2. Yammer is an internal social networking service, which SoftwareOne uses for private internal communication.