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The editors at Best Business Schools decided to research the topic of:
More Than Money: The Human Side of Business
- Good Employers
- 15-25 days of paid vacation
- maternity leave: 5 months of full pay
- Childcare:yes, but tuition applies
- flexible work hours: employees encouraged to work from home and schedule hours around family time
- Extras:
- free meals on campus
- on-site doctor
- unlimited sick days
- 20% time program: encourages employees to use ? of their paid work time volunteering, going to an organized on-campus event or do other activities 'outside their core duties'
- Good for the Environment:
- energy and efficiency
- 33% total used electricity from renewable sources
- 1.7 MW of solar panels produce 3 millon kWh of clean energy annually at Google's Mountain View Campus
- spent $1 billion on renewable energy projects
- capable of of providing 500,000 homes with electricity/ year.
- waste and pollution:
- 6 million sq ft of Google's buildings are LEED certified
- due to shuttle program and electric vehicle charging stations, Google is responsible for removing 40,000,000 vehicle miles from roads per year
- Good for Humanity
- hours: Googlers match their skills to specific nonprofit needs,
- use up to 20 hours of work time across the year to volunteer.
- In 2012, 5,000+ Googlers tackled more than 400 projects around the world
- over 50,000 volunteer hours logged in 2012
- pet project: launched AllForGood.com to connect people to volunteer opportunities
- Good for the Money:
- cash, products and services:
- Google gave over $1.11 billion last year in cash, products, and services
- Cash Given:$115,000,000
- match program:
- yes
- money added when "Googlers" volunteer their time or get to work through environmentally-friendly modes of transportation -- whether by foot, bike or kayak.
- donated over $50 million to over 12,000 nonprofit organizations through the program
Intel
- Good Employers
- 15-20 days of paid vacation
- paid maternity leave: none!
- childcare:five primary care childcare centers for workers
- employees working flexibly: 80%
- Extras
- Every 7 years, employees earn a two month sabbatical
- 14 fitness centers
- with exercise classes and on-site spas that provide haircuts, facials and therapeutic massages.
- Phase back - After maternity leave, new mothers are able to gradually increase their work schedule from 20 hours to 32 hours and back up to 40 hour
- Good for the Environment
- Newsweek Green Score: 59.2
- energy and efficiency:
- nine solar electric installations at Intel locations generating approximately 3.8 million kilowatt hours per year
- named the largest voluntary purchaser of green power by the EPA.
- renewable energy credit purchase exceeds 85% of its estimated electricity use,invested over $100 million in conservation programs since 1998.
- 40 billion gallons of water over this time period - enough to fill more than 60,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. vwaste not want not: recycles 70% of all waste in all locations
- Good for Humanity
- hours
- employees spent over 1 million hours volunteering in 2012
- and have done so since 2008
- To celebrate Intel's 40th anniversary in 2008, Intel donated a record 435,000 hours of service to local communities in the Asia Pacific region.
- pet project: The Intel Teach Program has trained teachers in 13 countries in Asia Pacific and benefited more than 2.63 million teachers, with 290,000 trained in 2008.
- Good for the Money
- cash, products and services:
- matching programs:
- Yes - 2 programs
- Intel Community Giving campaigns
- 2009, the U.S. Community Giving Campaign raised more than $12 million
- Intel Foundation funds for the United Way.
- For every 20 volunteer hours logged by employees, the Intel Foundation donates $80 to local schools and non-profit organizations.
Kraft
- Good Employers
- 20+ days of paid vacation (more for seasoned employees)
- flexible schedules: 60% of its employees use regular flexible schedules; up to 3 days/wk of off-site or work from home time
- childcare: no, but they do provide a day care referral service
- paid maternity leave: 2 weeks, on average
- extras
- converted 40% of its Northfield, IL, headquarters to open-plan seating
- Good for the Environment
- Energy and Efficiency:
- reduced energy usage by 25 percent between 2005 and 2010
- waste and pollution: between 2005 to 2010, Kraft
- reduced water consumption by 15 percent
- eliminated 150 million pounds of packaging material and reduce processing plant waste by 15 percent (all based on 2005 levels).
- reduced plant energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 25 percent, between 2005 and 2010
- Good for Humanity:
- Awards: 2012 Winner of Awards for Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Program
- pet project: 120 disasters responded to since 2004
- Volunteer hour: In 2011, 26,000 volunteers in 72 countries
- Good for the Money:
- cash, products and services:
- In 2011 Kraft donated $100 million to nonprofit organizations around the world.
- $14 million donated in cash and product for disaster relief since 2000
- matching program: no
IBM
- Good Employers
- 15 to 20 days of paid vacation
- maternity leave: 6 fully paid weeks off
- birth fathers and adoptive parents receive 2 fully paid weeks of leave, and there's up to $2,500 in adoption aid per child.
- Offers backup child care? Yes
- flexible work hours offered
- Good for the Environment:
- Newsweek Green Score: 82.9
- Energy and Efficiency:
- At its Zurich lab, water that cools a supercomputer is used to warm nearby buildings.
- pollution and waste: between 1990 and 2011,
- IBM saved 5.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumption,
- avoided 3.7 million metric tons of CO2 emissions through mobile employee program
- an amount equal to 55 percent of the company's 1990 global CO2 emissions,
- All of its employees take environmental awareness training sessions
- Good for Humanity
- Awards: Winner of 2011 Awards for Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Program
- Hours: As of June 2011, IBM's volunteer program logged 12 million hours,
- with more than 186,000 employees and retirees from over 84 countries registered to participate and log their hours
- Good for the Money
- cash, products and services:
- donated $185 million charitable causes in 2009
- $42 million in cash grants
- providing $12 million in community grants worldwide in 2013
- matching grant program
- yes, 2 programs -
- Matching Grants program - matches 100% of employee contribution; matches 50% of retiree contibutions
- In 2010, 5,703 organizations received grants with a value of $14.5 million.
- Community Grants programs
- IBM Community Grants support employees and retirees who volunteer regularly with not-for-profit organizations. In 2011, community organizations received grants with a value of $10 million through IBM Community Grants
Johnson & Johnson
- Good Employers:
- up to 30 days (6 weeks) of vacation per year
- childcare:
- If space permits, employees can bring extended family members to on site child care centers
- open from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- nurse available for sick children
- available for school holidays or backup care - up to 20 uses annually
- Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 4
- Offers paid paternity leave and paid adoption leave
- flexible work hours: offered
- extras:
- plus up to 40 hours a year of Work, Personal & Family Time Off
- Provides free resiliency training:
- gives employees stress management skills
- In 2009, approximately 15 percent of global workforce participated
- Good for the Environment:
- Newsweek Green Score:: 61.5
- Energy and Efficiency
- the largest fleet of hybrids in the world
- largest solar facility in CA
- More than 5,700 ground-mounted solar panels span six and a half acres.
- provides up to a third of the electrical power needed to run the site
- In 2008, Johnson & Johnson was named the second largest corporate user of on-site solar power in the United States by World Resources Institute.
- pollution and waste:
- achieved a 9 percent absolute reduction in CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2008,
- Good for Humanity
- awards
- hours
- pet project:
- Over the past three years,over 2.9 million units of medicine to 1/2 million U.S. patients.
- Johnson & Johnson has partnered with AmeriCares for more than 25 years,
- AmeriCares has delivered more than $145,000 in Johnson & Johnson products to Sandy victims
- Hygiene kits given to survivors within only days of the storm.
- In the following weeks, deliveries baby care supplies, disinfectants, and glucose meters and test strips for diabetic patients.
- Good for the Money
- cash, products and services:
- $603.3 million in cash and products toward over 700 programs in more than 50 countries in 2010.
- $108 million in cash to organizations in the United States and around the world for corporate and operating companies' programs and projects.
- $11.3 million allocated through Matching Gifts program;
- Johnson & Johnson double matched employee contributions
- $495.3 million in non-cash contributions.
- Of these, donated $423.2 million in pharmaceutical products to patients without adequate financial resources
- matching: yes
- match contributions between $25 to $1250 for eligible organizations
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