People & Planet
When you join Academic Work, you’re joining a company whose aim is to help people grow while being a climate-positive business. That means providing you with a work environment where everyone feels secure and that they can develop to reach their full potential, as well as looking after our planet.
We are dedicated to creating a better society and a better planet. Just like in recruitment, everything begins with people.
We have developed a sustainability strategy that is built on three clear pillars: People & Society, Planet, and Ethical & Sustainable Business.
These pillars are the foundations for a thought process that forms the “red thread” that runs through every action we take and every decision we make.
Our environmental work is driven by a sense of urgency and a strong will to create a reality where people and planet coexist in a sustainable way for everyone around the globe.
Sustainable and dynamic
Operating in a sustainable and dynamic labour market, we want to provide jobs of real value and to connect people, ensuring that they get a fair deal no matter what their background is. We want to set an example and share our experience with others, building awareness as we go.
We are committed to your continuous development, upgrading and refining your skills as you go along and providing opportunities for you to challenge yourself. We offer every employee not just a fair deal, but a promise of fair treatment, no matter what your role with us.
Recycling and minimizing waste
We are constantly looking for sustainable solutions to our energy and consumption needs, and have a laser-like focus on reducing our travel emissions. We have a zero vision for paper consumption and map the emissions caused by our supply chain.
We focus on recycling and minimising waste in all aspects of our business, and planet-positive food on the menu for both external and internal events.
We want our growth to be sustainable, driven by technology and innovation and achieved while adhering to the highest ethical standards.
Being the best place to work
As a company, we have always had a simple goal of being the best place to work. Having achieved high levels of employee satisfaction in the past, we are now reinventing what that means together with our co-workers.
This means doing more of what they love about Academic Work while seeking out new areas for improvement. By addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion, we are joining together and creating a company and a workplace we can all be proud of.
This is what we want for our people and our planet – you can read all about our sustainability work here.
How is AW meeting employees needs?
How well does AW meet co-workers need on Equality, diversity & inclusion (Source: Internal coworker survey Jan 2021)
How well does AW meet co-workers need on Social & environmental sustainability (Source: Internal coworker survey Jan 2021)
Our engagement in Zambia
Since 2004, we have donated one percent of our profit to school projects in Zambia, something we call The One Percent Movement. Over time, this contribution has helped build more than 50 schools and provided education for tens of thousands of children in southern Zambia.
Together with the charity organization Response Network, we support local communities in the villages around Livingstone by providing materials such as bricks, mortar, and window glass. In turn, the villagers themselves lead the projects and build their own schools, creating a model of self-sustaining aid.