Earnest Business: Sustainability app optimizes processes [Anzeige]
The demands on companies are growing almost every day. The top issue of sustainability poses challenges for small and medium-sized companies in particular. These challenges can be mastered with the help of apps, such as with Earn Businessthe business version of one of the most successful German sustainability apps.
While EU guidelines are turning the legal screws for more sustainability, employees also have concrete ideas about their employers. Small and medium-sized companies in particular, no matter how ambitious they tackle the sustainability project, quickly find themselves confronted with major challenges and huge amounts of data. Employers who act sustainably are proven to be more attractive.
Use sustainability apps in the company
Sustainability apps help to collect a company’s data and its sustainability goals. The app calculates the progress towards the sustainability goal by constantly updating and updating the data using convenient input masks. 85 percent of customers have made a switch to more sustainability in the past five years.
The information collected over any period of time can then be evaluated and used to optimize sustainability processes in the company. The clearly prepared data can be communicated both within the company and externally. 46 percent of employees want to work exclusively for companies that prioritize sustainability.
This has a positive effect in several respects. On the one hand, business partners and customers are increasingly attaching importance to the companies they do business with acting sustainably. On the other hand, many young people often only apply to job vacancies from companies that meet their sustainability requirements.
Collected sustainability experiences in the private sector
As a subsidiary of the Versicherungskammer, uptodate Ventures GmbH developed the Earnest App. A sustainability app that was launched in 2020 and quickly turned out to be a useful helper in everyday life. The Earnest app motivates you to live more sustainably with mini quizzes, tips and challenges. At the same time, it calculates how much CO2 you have saved by breaking old habits and switching to more sustainable options.
The Earnest app has been downloaded over 750,000 times since its launch, making it one of the most relevant sustainability apps in Germany. In March 2022, uptodate.de won the German Stevie Award Gold in the Apps – Lifestyle category with the sustainability app. In addition, the Earnest app was named the best app in the field of sustainability at the GDA Verlag App Awards 2022. With Earn Business uptodate Ventures GmbH would now also like to support companies in matters of sustainability.
Optimizing sustainability in the company
uptodate Ventures GmbH draws on the experience gained in the private sector at Earnest Business. This is a business version of the app designed to help companies save CO2 and meet their sustainability goals through sustainable action and management.
Earn Business inspires employees to become active every day and to root sustainability in the company. For a better insight, here are the most important benefits of the app:
- Users of the Earnest app have been able to save 10,000 tons of CO2 so far – it’s hard to imagine what companies can save
- Companies can get employees excited about the topic of sustainability and gain valuable insights into wishes, preferences and habits
- Thanks to the CO2 calculator, the app outputs key figures for the sustainability report
- Companies can achieve cost savings through sustainable action and management
- Employees identify more strongly with the company again when they have the feeling that the employer takes their sustainability concerns seriously.
- Motivate employees by means of sustainable team challenges, strengthen the sense of togetherness and increase satisfaction
- Make CO2 savings measurable throughout the company
- You get access to knowledge articles, a database of tips and a range of challenges, including team challenges, which invite you to do more for the environment together and thus strengthen the “we” feeling.
- Anchor the sustainability strategy in the company and in the minds of the employees
- Points gained with challenges can be used for sustainable projects, such as planting trees in the Amazon or filtering plastic from the oceans
- Make commitment to environmental protection visible to business partners, potential customers and applicants
The app helps accordingly not only in achieving the company’s sustainability goals. By allowing employees to get involved either individually or together, something good is done for the environment in two respects.
