Our goals and actions for a sustainable working environment

Enjoy your job – surrounded by a sustainable work environment!

SwissSalary Sustainability Goals

Enjoy your job! It is important to us that a job is not just associated with work but is also fun. To keep this promise long term, we adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by the United Nations in 2015. Our goal is to be environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable, and to continue to develop even further in these areas in the future.

In the year 2021, we focused on the following Sustainable Development Goals:

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"Dreams without goals are just dreams"

Goals and actions

In the year 2021, we focused on a total of eight Sustainable Development Goals – three in the social, three in the economic, and two in the environmental sphere.

Social

Goal: Promoting the health and subjective wellbeing of our employees.

Actions:

Annual monitoring of the current status
Support of continuing education and training
Lunchtime exercise opportunities (jogging, tennis, team climbing)
Modern and ergonomic furnishings at workstations
Vitamins at work (fruit is provided)
Modifications of internal work structures and processes

Goal: Equal pay for men and women.

Actions:

Analysis of equal pay using the federal analysis tool, Logib
Prompt adjustment upon determination of a pay gap

Goal: No discrimination during and outside of operating hours.

Actions:

Creation of a non-discrimination policy
Promotion of internal awareness with regard to discrimination
Development of a reporting process for discriminatory events (what is the course of action in a case of conflict?)
Reworking of existing regulations

Economic

Goal: Sponsorship of startups and university projects through know-how and financial support.

Actions:

Conceptual development of an instrument for the early detection of unhealthy work patterns

Goal: Sustainable pension pay plan as well as sustainable suppliers.

Actions:

Evaluation of the investment plan of our pension payor with regard to sustainability
Selection of suppliers based on sustainability
Public communication and relations

Goal: Promotion of fair competition and anti-corruption measures, support of nonprofit institutions.

Actions:

Evaluation of sustainable solutions and integration of these into our products and tools
Development of a concept for the internal use of open-source software solutions
Analysis of potential partnerships with nonprofit institutions in Switzerland

Environmental

Goal: Reduction of SwissSalary’s energy consumption and switch to renewable energy.

Actions:

Evaluation of the energy consumption by SwissSalary’s offices the last three years
Switch of energy products to (primarily) solar energy

Goal: SwissSalary as a CO2-neutral company.

Actions:

Evaluation of SwissSalary’s CO2 footprint and offsets through participation in climate protection projects and adoption of more environmentally friendly alternatives
Support of the project "Stop deforestation in Pará, Brazil" from the SwissClimate portfolio
Planting of 200 trees in 4 countries (offset of 15 metric tons of CO2)
Purchase of reusable dishes by the company ReCircle
Replacement of PET mineral water bottles through installation of AQA drink water dispensers

Our involvement in climate protection projects

SwissSalary Forest

Our SwissSalary Forest was created through the planting of 200 trees. Because we are unable to reduce our emissions to zero, planting trees is a natural means of sequestering CO2 and offsetting emissions. Trees are also a central component of a healthy earth.

Stopping deforestation in Pará Brazil

The main goal of this climate protection project is to stop commercial logging. By banning logging operations, a giant forest with dense vegetation is preserved, resulting in a high reduction of CO2 emissions. The cultivation of Açaí, a local berry, is supported as an alternative source of income for the local population. By supporting this project, SwissSalary contributed to saving 132 metric tons of CO2. You can find more information on this and other climate protection projects at www.swissclimate.ch.

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