To Ten Bear Group, sustainability means implementing and promoting positive environmental change. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is far more than multinationals pledging to end deforestation and eliminating sweatshops. Ten Bear’s management, staff and clients are committed towards taking steps to intelligently reduce our carbon footprint while growing our business as an SME. 

The global Covid-19 disruption has pushed most organisations into new ways of operating. To us, sustainability also means cultivating stability. We aim to build a business able to weather future change while still maintaining our values. 

 Here is how we’re creating a sustainable future for Ten Bear, our customers and our planet.

As a digital business, our commitment to environmental sustainability is linked to travel, workplace and data storage.   

Employee Travel

Beyond the travel offset initiative, we’re also evaluating the way we travel. As a remote company based around the world, we’re used to frequent flying. If it’s not New York for a client visit, it’s Munich or London as a team for a Digital event. Before you know it, even a small workforce can rack up significant air miles.  

Our Code of Conduct for Staff Travel is more important now than ever. It may be unclear how international travel will proceed after Coronavirus, but our sustainable travel initiative is a long-term commitment to our planet. As individuals, we commit to looking at our business travel choices from an environmental perspective. As a business, we aim to plan staff travel holistically, and coordinate so our client visits can coincide with team meetings. 

Production, Storage and Use of Data

Global data centre energy demand in 2018 was an estimated 1% of global electricity demand. Ten Bear hosts our data in secure cloud environments, replacing energy-heavy servers in our offices.  

These outsourced cloud environments are, of course, hosted elsewhere. We want to avoid outsourcing our sense of environmental responsibility and we aim to regularly evaluate the eco-friendly credentials our data centers provide. As our data needs vary between client projects, we commit to regular data audits, clearing out unused data sets. 

Our choice of Software Partners is another component of sustainable data. We ensure our partners’ data centers meet current sustainability guidelines.