How Can Your Company ‘Go Green’?

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How Can Your Company ‘Go Green’?

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According to a Forbes article, “organizations should put a spotlight on sustainability efforts” to attract and retain the best and the brightest. Many millennials in particular value environmentally-friendly efforts in the workplace, so for human resources pros wondering how to recruit the demographic, consider some of these efforts — some easier than others.

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Being an environmentally-friendly company is a priority for a lot of employees these days.

So for companies who want to compete in a challenging economy for top talent, considering some “green” measures to potentially improve recruitment (and retention) efforts could well be worth the cost.

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This sounds kind of old fashioned, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important or that you shouldn’t do it. You can have all the flash and contribute to all the right environmental causes. You can have a “green committee” and plants throughout the office. But what if your windows let in a nasty draft or you’re pumping way more air conditioning in summer months than you need to?

Energy efficient buildings are cool, too.

Make sure you have a firm foundation — literally — before you start considering too much.

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Energy Audit

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Set the tone from the day your employees arrive: you don’t use your printers much at your company. Keep the paperwork to a minimum. Provide them with an all-electronic onboarding, and design your environment to reflect that. Who needs drawers?

They only get filled up with paper, right? Provide some office storage to go near their desks if they want some, but market yourself overall as a company that works entirely online.

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Green Operations

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This is a hefty expense up front, but for those can swing it, now could be better than ever to invest in solar. Federal incentives will be sunsetting over the coming years, so you can get rebates to help fray the cost.

Get a solar recommendation along with your energy audit to see how your building could be a good option for solar panels. And don’t forget: solar panel maintenance is key to keeping them effective as well. Employees notice these things, and it’s a very bold image to show on your company website.

Work Remote For smaller companies without a roof to throw solar panels on top of, one way to go green is to leave your carbon footprint so small you don’t use a building at all! In today’s gig economy, depending on your line of work, you can easily use online tools to connect with your team wherever in the world they may be operating from. Not only does this save you overhead, but it means less commuting for everyone else, reducing emissions. It’s also a way of working that is becoming more and more popular, so environmental benefits aside, more and more people are just preferring to work from home.

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Solar Panels

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For smaller companies without a roof to throw solar panels on top of, one way to go green is to leave your carbon footprint so small you don’t use a building at all! In today’s gig economy, depending on your line of work, you can easily use online tools to connect with your team wherever in the world they may be operating from. Not only does this save you overhead, but it means less commuting for everyone else, reducing emissions. It’s also a way of working that is becoming more and more popular, so environmental benefits aside, more and more people are just preferring to work from home.

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