How Esker is embracing practices that have a positive impact on our local and global environment
Earth Day was founded in 1970 and is an annual time to shift our focus to protecting our beautiful planet we call home. It is a day to focus on educating others about environmental issues, to help raise awareness of pollution, renewable energy, and ways that people can take steps to be greener.
Esker is always ready to promote Earth Day, because reducing waste and paper use within businesses is something we are passionate about.
While Esker’s solutions are used to drive added value creation within finance and customer service functions, their benefits expand beyond the doors of the company itself — giving new meaning to jobs, improving strategic relationships, and promoting environmental sustainability. We call this positive-sum-growth.
Esker is proud to offer digital solutions that help to improve local and global environmental health by helping to reduce equipment, paper, and ultimately, carbon expelled into the atmosphere. Actively taking steps to look after the planet is crucial, and today is a great time to consider what you can do to help – both in business and on a personal level.
In addition, Esker was recently awarded a platinum medal for ESG performance by Ecovadis due to our own daily commitment to implementing measures and results to better our own ESG impact, including the environment. This is definitely something to celebrate!
EcoVadis evaluates the quality of a company’s ESG performance through its policies, implementation measures and results, on four themes: Environment, Social & Human Rights, Ethics, Responsible Purchasing. With a score of 74/100, Esker is in the top 1% of all companies assessed by Ecovadis.
Within our offices, we are all playing our part in protecting our environment. For example,
Waste Recovery: Esker’s cloud platform has helped businesses around the world to automate nearly 3 billion sheets of paper. We encourage recycling at our office sites such as paper/cardboard, batteries, plastics. We also promote the use of reusables; cups, shipping supplies and printer cartridges.
Promotion of Renewable Energies: 100% of Esker’s new customer environments are hosted in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud in order to use a minimum of 60% renewable energy in accordance with the objectives announced by Microsoft.
Reduction of CO2 Emissions: To encourage employees to cycle to work we provide bike parks on our premises, as well as offering government bike discount schemes. Our fleet of company vehicles is gradually being replaced by hybrid or electric vehicles with charging points on-site.
To find out more about Esker’s ESG Strategy, visit https://www.esker.co.uk/company/corporate-social-responsibility/
