What guidance have you received from your business on how to reduce carbon impact?
Guide to recycling
Food waste advice
Salary sacrifi ce for electric vehicles
No guidance has been given
Zero waste policy
Promotion of car shares
Insight into company investments
35%
17%
13%
12%
9%
8%
8%
How easy do you think introducing sustainable
working practices is for your organisation?
62%
23%
14%
“If there’s one thing everyone
wants to do, it’s to look good to
our children. And so that’s why
he agreed to more sustainable
business decisions, so that he
could go home and tell them he
had made the whole company
more sustainable, for them really,”
Gaskell explained.
Would you be comfortable going to the C-suite and requesting
they make more environmentally-friendly decisions?
Slightly easy
Easy
Not easy at all
HR’s role
With employee attraction at stake HR
can position itself in the driver’s seat
to encourage sustainable practice and
change within businesses.
Gaskell said that he thinks there are
two roles that the function can play:
the first being recruitment and the
second to help build employee
Sustainability webinar Strategic HR
Yes
Maybe but I would need
to convince them
They would take my
request on board
support in order to make changes at
the top of a business.
“If I were an HR director I would
be wanting to make sure that we are
making the changes to the business
landscape that are going to attract and
recruit those people,” said Gaskell.
Argall agreed and said: “If a
business is looking to attract the
right employees and retain them they
need to give them a range of
sustainable benefits that are going to
meet the business’ goals as well as the
overall government goals around
reducing carbon.” HR
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44%
22%
34%
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