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There’s No Secret to Attracting & Retaining the Best & Brightest

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Glenn Hasek

With an unemployment rate of just 4 percent paired with tighter immigration policies, finding and keeping the best and brightest workers has become increasingly more difficult. Past surveys have shown that hotels or hotel companies with strong corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs have higher employee retention rates. The results of a recent survey strengthen the case for having outstanding CSR initiatives.

Swytch, a blockchain-based clean energy platform, recently conducted a survey of 1,000 employees in the United States who either currently work for or have worked for a company with over 5,000 employees to explore their sentiments around employers’ corporate sustainability activities.

The survey results show that employees of all generations seek companies that have programs set in place to be more sustainable. Gen Z and Millennials are the most enthusiastic about pursuing and staying loyal to greener companies.

When choosing a company to work for, over 70 percent of people surveyed are more likely to work for a company that has a strong green footprint. Nearly half of respondents are even willing to accept a smaller salary to work for an environmentally and socially responsible company. In fact, over 10 percent would accept a salary decrease between $5,000 and $10,000, and over 3 percent would even be inclined to accept a decrease of over $10,000 per year.

Age Makes a Difference

Younger generations feel the most strongly about their employers taking steps to increase corporate sustainability. Over a third of both Gen Z and Millennials say it would be a deal breaker for them to work for a company that does not have a strong sustainability culture, whereas under a quarter of Gen X and only 17 percent of Baby Boomers would agree. Nearly 40 percent of Millennials have accepted one job offer over another because that company was sustainable.

Beyond just attracting new talent, Swytch’s study shows that creating and circulating long-term sustainability goals will also help a business retain its employees. Nearly 70 percent of respondents say that a strong sustainability plan would affect their decision to stay with a company long term. In fact, about 30 percent have left a company due to its lack of a corporate sustainability agenda and over 11 percent have done so more than once.

“As a growing number of employees are eager to see corporations take a stand on environmental responsibility, employers will have to respond accordingly in order to attract and retain top talent,” says Evan Caron, co-founder and Managing Director of Swytch.

According to the just released, survey-based Green Lodging Trends Report 2018, leading green hotels both involve and reward staff who practice sustainability at work. Seventy percent said they have green teams, 65 percent have a green champion, 90 percent have staff sustainability training at least once a year, 57 percent have an employee comment/suggestion collection process for sustainability-related issues, and 67 percent give recognition to staff members who go above and beyond with regards to sustainability. The adoption rate for this practice has increased since 2017 (59 percent) and 2016 (47 percent).

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