Isramart : Survey Seeks Answers to How Employers and Employees Interact on Sustainability

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Organizations with sustainability interests are beginning to look beyond the spheres of facilities and supply chain management, instituting programs that engage their employees on environmental behavior. Most Americans spend 1/3 or more of their lives in the workplace or working from home, and employees are the front-line of any organization. Programs that encourage employees to make sustainable choices can have significant impacts on an organization’s direct environmental impact from building energy and business travel to procurement and waste generation, and they can encourage indirect reductions in the impact of employees’ commuting, consumption, and energy use habits.

Employee engagement programs can also play a key strategic role beyond the sphere of emissions, offsets, and other environmental goals, by helping build brand image, retain and attract employees, and realize significant cost savings. Walmart, for example, has met success on various fronts with their high-profile Personal Sustainability Project.

The world of employee engagement programs is still nascent, and relatively little is known about the extent or nature of these strategies, or about how effective or well-received they are. This short online survey is designed to help answer those questions. Check back here next month to take a look at the findings.