Your growing business cares about the earth, promotes sustainability, produces eco friendly products and services but how green is your working environment? In the rush to build a business, the focus on making office space environmentally friendly may not be high priority. That’s not necessarily true for green businesses but, keeping up with the latest opportunities to go green may be.
Green Teams can help.
Steve Schwartz, founder of Payroll and HR solutions provider Paylocity, organized a team of employees specifically to focus on greening their new office. While Paylocity’s new office space features state of the art green furniture, carpets and lighting and they engage in paperless payroll, Schwartz thought they could do more.
The green team came up with some small, simple solutions that keep the company on a track toward continuous improvement in developing an eco friendly working environment. Ceramic coffee cups replaced Styrofoam and more telecommuting was analyzed as an option.
Going green is red-hot, and now businesses are going a step further by actively engaging employees in strategy sessions around the issue. An April 2007 survey by Adecco, an international HR company, found that 52 percent of employed adults felt their companies should do more to be environmentally friendly.
Continuous improvement is a goal to which many companies, large and small subscribe. That goes for greening the workplace too. With so many new options to make your workplace eco friendly, green teams can be a way to stay ahead of the curve.
What simple steps has your company taken to continue to green your working environment? How do you stay abreast of new opportunities?
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I work in an Insurance Agency and we go through alot of paper. I have given the girls boxes to collect the paper we throw away so we can recycle instead. I have noticed how companies will mail us one paper at a time and have even called them and given them ideads on how to conserve. I unplug all the machines we do not use on a daily basis-and have been catching slack but it is worth it. We all need to do our part!