Thanks to the Softchoice Cares Board for some of the best 18 months of my life!
I’ve uploaded some videos of our volunteer trip to Sri Lanka. Some of them are long videos, but they bring back lots of memories. More to come!
By the way, the video of us mixing cement for one of the first times is pretty funny, I wish we had a video form the last day to compare! [Read more...]
If there’s one thing I can urge companies to do is to request that their orders be shipped complete, whether it’s from an office supply company or for your new laptop. When you contact them, just ask that the order be shipped together and not as stock becomes available. This option is not usually available when ordering online and is something organizations would rather not do- you may have to call in your order. The reason they detour shipping in this method is that it inflates inventory; the product stays on the shelf longer waiting for its counter parts to arrive. Another quick way is to order from as few companies as possible, further reducing deliveries. This project was to promote shipping complete in an effort to reduce packaging and carbon dioxide from couriers.
To begin this project, I first took a look at how many orders were shipping partial, what the carbon emissions were for those shipments and what was it costing the company to move stock off the shelves faster. [Read more...]
On March 10th at 6pm EST, the Softchoice lunchroom was transformed from a place where employees gather to eat, into a place where employees gather to eat…and settle their differences with Rocks, Papers, and Scissors!
We had an amazing 33 competitors, throwing down for their crack at the title of “Softchoice RPS Grand Champion” (SCC-RPSGC), but only one would prevail; Dinh Tran from the Toronto Mid-Market Outbound Team. Allow us to frame what may accompany this most prestigious title:
Softchoice is officially registered for the Chicago Green Office Challenge! We started by signing up online at www.chicagogreenofficechallenge.org and we entered in our baseline data. With a rating system they provided and thanks to the great work from the 2009 Softchoice GreenTeam we are already considered a tier 1 company in this challenge.
However, the contest is based on growth so it will take a lot of us to come up with some changes to grow an already great score. Please let me know if you have any ideas that can help!
It is not just all about monetary impact with Softchoice Cares. Employees can use up to 2 paid volunteer days per year locally with community charity organizations (almost 400 volunteer days per year are being used). Since September 2008 our Seattle office has been committing volunteer hours to Technology Access Foundation (TAF) which helps prepare at risk children for higher education and professional success through after school programs. Since 2006 we had numerous offices across North America get their hands dirty with Habitat for Humanity on local builds providing homes for those without the funds to provide the bear necessity of housing. In 2010, we announced a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to help provide technological access to homes that are being built for families in need. Our employees are creative individuals who have spent their volunteer days driving citizens in Philadelphia to the election pools. A popular choice is breaking bread in soup kitchens and food banks all over North America. It is also not surprising that Softchoice employees want their volunteer days to be spent in the technology field setting up computer labs in places like San Francisco and Montreal.
The above volunteer hours and funds donated to philanthropy organizations are just a few of the examples of the impact Softchoice Cares has made in five short years. These combined efforts have enabled us to impact thousands of families in positive ways.
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