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Are Greener Employees Better for your Business?
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Discussion and Presentations
Presentation- Are Greener Employees Better?
Discussion- What are we doing to encourage employees to be green at work and at home?
Resources, programs and services
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Are Greener Employees Better? Questions
Are they more productive? Are they more efficient? Are they healthier? Are they more effective managers? Are they happier?
If the answer to any one these is YES, then, What can we be doing to encourage employees to
be greener in the workplace and at home?
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What We Are Talking About
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Greener Lifestyles
Energy efficient Saves money utilities
Fewer toxic chemicals Green cleaning, low VOC paints, off gassing.
Less trash/more recycling Civic responsibility Knows about household hazardous waste
Resource efficient Purchases less stuff/purchases used stuff
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Green Life Style Benefits
Saves Money Reduce Health Impacts of VOC and OZONE.
Fewer headaches, respiratory issues More refreshed feeling
Better Quality Sleep Heart healthy, reduces cancer, weight Better memory, less depression, better recovery
(in all respects)
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Green Worker Benefits
Understands benefits Good for health Good for bottom line
Follows protocols because green is not optional
Confident in company green strategy Confident in peer group
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What the Employees Thought
Logicalis Survey 62% employer should provide green
incentives to employees; 57% could be greener, if asked to be; 43% believe employer pays lip service to
environmental issues;
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What the Employees Thought
Logicalis Survey 49% employer wastes energy; 45% employer needs new schemes to reduce
waste; 37% welcome training. 81%-92% of Americans prefer working for a
company with a good environmental responsibility reputation. (Ipsos Morri and MonsterTrack)
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Conclusions
Employee health improvements Employee functionality improvements “Green” is important to employees Employees want to be confident employer is
not wasteful
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Conclusions
Employees need to feel protected Employees need to know and understand
decisions employer makes. Green initiatives can help retain and motivate
key talent.
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Question 1
Did your company do anything special for Earth month?
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Question 2
Does your company have green benefits? Commuter transit benefits Light bulb give away Green home working day Green service day Tips for home
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Question 3
How does your business communicate about its green initiatives with employees? Email newsletter Print newsletter Union newsletter Lunch room display Signage within workplace Meetings
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Question 4
Are green actions encouraged or required? How much is automated (lights on sensors) and
how much is decision based (recycling in break room)?
How is correct decision-making reinforced?
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Question 5
Who is responsible for greening employees? Human Resources Managers Other function that undertakes greening:
environmental health managers, facility managers, operations.
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GREEN HR BENEFITS
“Green HR initiatives are in bloom” according to the Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association
100 percent offer in-office recycling 73 percent offer mass transit incentives; 46 percent offer car pooling incentives; 45 percent offer flextime 27 percent offer incentives for alternative fuel
vehicles
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GREEN HR BENEFITS
Employer Assisted Housing $5,000 Financial Reward for buying car that
gets 45 mpg $2,000 Giveaways like re-useable bags Wellness and fitness programs Locked bicycle parking, showers, locker
room.
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Green HR Benefits
Employee stipend of $300 per year to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs and improved energy-efficient windows.
Employee stipend of $1000 per year toward a solar hot-water system, solar PV panels and a wind turbine or a wood-pellet furnace.
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Green HR Benefits
Employee challenges; commuter challenge, carpool challenge, paper saving challenge, safety challenge.
Offsets to remain carbon neutral
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Green Working Holiday
Employees are given day to green home with kit of cleaning products, weatherization tools and light bulbs (kit cost is $50). Must provide documentation and Hr hosts contest.
Employee is given a sustainable gift and attends educational programs before eating a free lunch. This can be followed by cleaning or volunteer effort—like painting school with low VOC products.
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Leaders
King Arthur-recognized by Wall Street Journal as one the top small Workplaces green teams aligned with the company’s values, identified significant cost savings through its recycling
programs, waste and energy reductions, and use of green cleaning products.
Employees knew where to find savings and how to effect the changes they recommended.
Stewardship 101 classes that tackle work-related issues as well as help employees reduce their personal environmental impact. One example is a home-efficiency class that helps employees to reduce their energy use.