Overview
At Cloudbyz, driving positive social and environmental impact is core to who we are as a company. We bring our values to life with all our stakeholders, stockholders, customers, and employees. We hope to better the communities where we live, through taking care of the environment. We are striving to create a better world through the following:
We are committed to creating a sustainable, low-carbon future by delivering a carbon neutral cloud, operating as a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions company.
We plan to drive equality in four key areas:
Equal rights
Equal pay
Equal education
Equal opportunity
We adopted our 1-1-1 integrated philanthropy model, which leverages one percent of a company’s equity, employee time and product to help improve communities around the world. (https://pledge1percent.org/pledged/ )
Our flex workspace approach recognizes that we enable employee success, operate our business, and provide for our customers while working more sustainably from anywhere. While remote working is only one factor in decreased emissions during the pandemic, we have seen a glimpse into the potential climate benefits it could offer, with an estimating that global CO2 emissions decreased by 8.8% in the first half of 2020, compared with the same period in 2019.
Cloudbyz is committed to operating its business in a way that supports an environmentally sustainable future. This is part of our ongoing commitment to our employees, customers, partners, shareholders, and the communities in which we live and work.
Compliance & Regulations
At Cloudbyz, we view compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations as a minimum standard of performance for our global operations. But we’re not satisfied with the bare minimum. We are committed to ongoing improvement, setting performance goals, and implementing best practices in support of global sustainability objectives.
Employee Engagement
Through their daily actions, our employees around the globe can significantly influence our environmental performance. We commit to engaging our employees in environmental sustainability initiatives including ;raising awareness of how they can support our goals while limiting their individual impacts on the environment and harnessing their ideas and energy on how to build a more sustainable world.
Education for the Underprivileged
We work to close equity and achievement gaps and prepare underprivileged students for the future of work and innovation. Focusing on K–12 students, we create and fund engaging, hands-on experiences that build problem-solving, design thinking, and digital skills, giving underserved students a window into possible future careers.
Philanthropy
We are committed to positively impacting our communities and influencing those we partner with to create a better world. Our impact and influence is realized through philanthropy from Cloudbyz. We engage with global nonprofit partners to prepare students for the future with STEM education, addressing essential needs and inequities in the community and working to mitigate climate change.
Community: Working in solidarity with communities, we partner with organizations whose efforts combat food insecurity and hunger, support inclusion and social justice, and use technology to create and scale solutions that improve quality of life for individuals and society.
Environment: To mitigate climate change and its effects on people and the planet, we aim to support nonprofits that help protect ecosystems, facilitate the transition to clean energy in rural and low-income communities, and create experiences that cultivate the next generation of environmental stewards.
Responsibility: Cloudbyz generates positive impact in the community by mobilizing our employees to help solve social challenges around the world and create access to opportunity. Each year, Cloudbyz employees step up to help communities around the world through volunteering, donating to nonprofits, and responding to disasters through recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Giving: We encourage and facilitate these efforts by connecting our people with nonprofits and offering an employee matching gift program for donations to eligible nonprofits, schools and organizations. The Cloudbyz Matching Gift Program, matches financial donations and volunteer time to eligible charities around the world.
Leading: Our global impact is a result of employees stepping up to lead corporate initiatives and/or develop locally focused activities and engagement opportunities. Offices form Social Impact Teams and lead these projects that engage employees and respond to local needs.
Innovation: During the pandemic, we transformed our volunteer program to a virtual model to keep employees engaged in new volunteer-from-anywhere projects and help them stay connected to the community.
Workplace Environment
There are a variety of regulatory mandates that enforce workplace health, safety, and security practices across any business. These inform our initiatives here at Cloudbyz by establishing a minimum standard for expected performance across our global organization. But we aspire to be world-class in every part of our business, especially when it comes to the safety and security of our employees and operations.
As such, we strive to produce a work environment for our people around the globe that is free of accidents, illness, and violence. We work to achieve this goal by engaging with our people through ongoing vigilance, prevention, and awareness.
As our business grows and evolves, we will continue to ensure workplace health, safety, and security while meeting our goals for operational productivity, efficiency, and customer service. CLoudbyz drives these efforts through communication and education around issues and opportunities in four specific areas:
Workplace Health & Safety
We identify and manage hazards and prevent illness and injuries in the workplace by establishing proper safeguards and by keeping our employees informed
Physical Security
We instill proactive adherence to security procedures and vigilant awareness for safeguarding our employees, the company, and its assets
Emergency Preparedness & Resiliency
We encourage a perpetual state of awareness and alertness to enable quick and mindful action in the case of an emergency to protect our people and operations from disruption and harm
Travel Safety
We support a continuous safety and security mindset outside of the workplace and around the world for traveling employees
Through continuous and cooperative efforts, Cloudbyz creates and nurtures a positive safety and security culture across the company.
Carbon Reduction Programs
Cloudbyz adopted various programs, policies and best practices to reduce our carbon footprint and plan to net zero.
Digital Tools only
Cloudbyz is a 100% digital organization enabling our employees, customers and partners in reducing or eliminating paper documents. All our business communications and contracts are enabled with digital tools and platforms eliminating the need for paper.
100% recycled products
We only use 100% recycled paper products such as cups, plates, bags, silverware etc
Work from Anywhere
Work from home flexibility offered to our employees enables us to reduce carbon footprint as our employees travel 80% to 90% less compared to industry standards.
Business Travel
We conduct our business remotely eliminating or reducing the need for travel and we also promote ride share services and other climate friendly travel.
Recycle
Recycling at our workplace is one easy way to reduce our organization’s carbon footprint. WIth recycling, we reduce the number of raw materials that need to be sourced to create products from scratch.
Switch to Online Meetings and Online Events
Cloudbyz adopted 100% online meetings and events with online meetings tools Google Meet and Microsoft Teams for both internal and customer meetings.
Plant Trees
We adopted 10 acre barren land in Andhra Pradesh, India to educate farmers on regenerative agriculture and plant trees. In 2021, we planted 2000 trees and in 2022, planted another 2000 trees. We plan to plant 100,000 trees by 2025 in barren land, promoting afforestation and promoting regenerative agriculture and permaculture to promote sustained life and environemnt.
