49 work very closely with our corporate real estate team on office refurbishment and office efficiency . They ’ re a really strong centre of excellence within that team in terms of driving down energy use and increasing efficiency .”
Travel was identified as the area in which the biggest single impact for sustainability could be initiated . Robey and his team wanted to look at travel from a holistic perspective and not just through the lens of carbon footprint . “ We wanted to look through the lens of
employee wellbeing , employee safety and operational efficiency . So , Travelwell was a programme that looked at travel from an end-to-end perspective to address that issue . We said , ‘ If we can find smarter ways of delivering , that ’ s good for the environment and uses less carbon , but also good for people ’ s work-life balance , then that ’ s good for operational efficiency . We ’ ve all had those nightmare occasions where you ’ re stuck in the wrong part of the world on the Friday night and
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