CREATING A BETTER FUTURE
In 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The target: creating a better planet over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance.
At Expert Thinking we are passionate about doing our part to help tackle climate change, equality and promote good health. We’re doing this with the help of Support the Goals, a powerful initiative to raise awareness of the UN Global Goals in the business community.
As part of our commitment to making a real difference, our initial focus is on supporting three UN Global Goals that are aligned with our business ethos and where we feel we can make the biggest real-world impact.
Purpose
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Measurable Targets
100% employees and associates of Expert Thinking to have access to mental health support.
Taking Action
We recognise that staff will sometimes deal with mental health issues, and we believe there should be no stigma attached to mental health. It is our commitment that all staff has access to free, confidential counselling services. These services are provided by Health Assured and can take the form of a telephone consultation, online chat, or email.
We understand that good health and well-being consists of multiple factors, and we focus on empowering and supporting our people across five areas: emotional, physical, social, career, and financial well-being. Expert Thinking’s people are at the heart of everything we do and therefore we have the following in place to ensure the best well-being of our team:
- Mental Health First Aider training to raise awareness and provide support to our full team.
- Health & Safety Policy shared with all employees and associates.
- Vitality Health Insurance
- Regular Social Events
Performance Data
We have a trained network of peer-to-peer counsellors – our Mental Health First Aider team – who are spread across departments and able to offer a confidential, friendly chat if required. We continue to provide Vitality Health Insurance and have renewed this following the impacts to the team.
Our team successfully completed the Total Warrior in 2023 to support and challenge physical health.
During 2023 we have carried out quarterly social events.
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Purpose
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender in-equity in the workplace can be inherent in recruitment processes, particularly in male-dominated industries. Standardised interviews and skills-based assessments can help address the issue.
Measurable Targets
We aim to attend and/or host quarterly events to empower women and further work towards gender equality in our workplace.
Taking Action
We have reviewed our recruitment process, using skills-based assessments and structured interviews to reduce the risk of bias. We have also removed information regarding gender when screening candidates. Our equality, diversity and inclusion policy is in place and shared with all members of the organisation.
All eligible staff undertake compliance training covering Code of Ethics, Inclusion and Diversity, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Data Privacy and Data Protection and Information Security. To further our positive impact, our team will attend networking events and enterprise days to empower women to forge careers in the technology industry.
Performance Data
In 2022 we doubled our female workforce. In 2023 we introduced two more colleagues to our female workforce. One of our fantastic engineers Emma progressed into a technical position. A full review of our pay and policies was completed in 2023 to ensure equality throughout the company. We continue to work towards our target of events to empower Women. See what Emma has been up to.
Purpose
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Measurable Targets
In 2022 we committed to implementing and promoting supplier and partner sustainable practices and this continues in 2023. We have reviewed our colleagues’ carbon footprints and offsetting this, covering both personal and professional lives.
With this in mind we are committed to a remote first business with travel only when necessary.
We are mindful of our impact on the environment and take our commitment to reducing our personal and corporate impact.
According to the research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences employees who worked remotely full time reduced their emissions by 54%, compared with workers in an office, the study found. Hybrid workers did not reduce their emissions so dramatically, one day of remote work a week reduced emissions by just 2% because energy savings from not being in the office were offset by factors such as an increase in non-commuting travel when working from home. Working remotely two or four days a week reduced an individual’s emissions by up to 29% compared with on-site workers.
Taking Action
As experts in technology, we want to promote sustainable IT to help organisations reduce their emissions and carbon footprint. This will enable us to take customers beyond climate education and into climate action.
We use Azure for our cloud infrastructure, supporting a carbon neutral company, and actively encourage our customers to use sustainable practices during the transformational and implementation process.
Through optimising the use of public cloud, we move from traditional compute to cloud compute in order to significantly reduce the amount of power and heat used within various industries.
Technologies such as Cloud Native Platforms can increase compute efficiency by a factor of five – a particular area of specialisation for Expert Thinking. Our implementation of these technologies, alongside ephemeral compute can have an outsized effect on emissions for our customers.
Alongside the above, we are nearing the completion of a white paper that will be shared with our customers on cloud engineering for efficiency – driving the message home on avoiding the need for wasted compute, improving efficiency throughout the lifecycle.
We partner with Delphix, a technology company that consolidates sprawling data footprints by virtualizing data — for a 10:1 savings in cost, power, cooling and related carbon impact, and thus reduces carbon impact by 10x for enterprise applications, so environmental sustainability is core to our value as a company and our people.
Climate change is a preventable crisis – we are focused on minimising damage to the environment.
Performance Data
In 2022 we performed 100% remotely and will continue this trend in 2023.
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For the future
Our immediate focus is on making a real difference in our three chosen UN Global Goals, but we want to keep learning, improving, and having a positive impact. So we have established three further UN Global Goals to plan for in the medium-term:
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