BE FREE, BE RESPONSIBLE
Square has committed to a continuous improvement CSR approach since its creation
“Be free, be responsible”: these words, summarizing Square’s CSR commitment, hold as true as they have in the past. Together, we continue giving them their true meaning.Jérôme Boucheron, Square’s President
The current health crisis is unprecedented. For more than a year, it has dramatically and durably shaken our economic and welfare sytems, challenged our decision-making mechanisms and – imposing upon each of us sacrifices to which we have complied with some level of reluctance – forced us to rethink our relationship with others, with the fragility and sustainability of our social and environmental models.
In front of the difficulties faced by our employees, by our Clients and our suppliers, our group has risen to the new responsibilities that have fallen upon us, the first of which being the need to maintain the trust that each of these stakeholders has placed in us.
In front of the difficulties faced by our employees, by our Clients and our suppliers, our group has risen to the new responsibilities that have fallen upon us, the first of which being the need to maintain the trust that each of these stakeholders has placed in us.
The 4 challenges that Square has set out to address in the frame of its CSR approach – Have a sustainable economic model, Make employees happy and fulfilled at work, Having a positive impact on Society, and Make our clients trust the future – are therefore all the more relevant!
First and foremost keen on ensuring the wellbeing at work of our employees and the success of the missions assigned to us by our Clients (in a context that pushes us each day to reinvent our ways of working, interacting, forming relationships), we have set ourselves in order to best meet such requirements by taking specific measures.
By developing new partnerships, increasing remote activities and contact opportunities, by running surveys in order to best adapt our management to the expectations of our employees during lockdown, while allowing them to keep a physical activity thanks to sport classes provided by Gymlib, we took to heart to keep the proximity of the relationship we wish to have with each of them, which constitutes, since its creation, one of the cornerstones of our group.
The urgency of the situation has not, for that matter, made us forget our responsibilities in terms of environmental protection.
The implementation of the tool Toovalu has allowed us to carry out our Scope 3 carbon footprint, an essential datapoint that will serve as a basis to set, as early as in 2021, concrete objectives for the reduction of our carbon footprint.
First and foremost keen on ensuring the wellbeing at work of our employees and the success of the missions assigned to us by our Clients (in a context that pushes us each day to reinvent our ways of working, interacting, forming relationships), we have set ourselves in order to best meet such requirements by taking specific measures.
By developing new partnerships, increasing remote activities and contact opportunities, by running surveys in order to best adapt our management to the expectations of our employees during lockdown, while allowing them to keep a physical activity thanks to sport classes provided by Gymlib, we took to heart to keep the proximity of the relationship we wish to have with each of them, which constitutes, since its creation, one of the cornerstones of our group.
The urgency of the situation has not, for that matter, made us forget our responsibilities in terms of environmental protection.
The implementation of the tool Toovalu has allowed us to carry out our Scope 3 carbon footprint, an essential datapoint that will serve as a basis to set, as early as in 2021, concrete objectives for the reduction of our carbon footprint.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY
Square’s CSR approach was reviewed in 2021 to be in perfect alignment with the objectives of the group and contribute to serve its challenges.
THE 4 CHALLENGES OF THE SQUARE CSR APPROACH
Develop a sustainable economic model
Make employees happy and fulfilled at work
Make our clients trust the future
Have a positive impact on society
SQUARE FOUNDATION
A foundation that actively supports 5 organizations in the field of childhood, health and entrepreneurship.
UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT
By signing the United Nations Global Compact in 2013, Square has decided to join the most important global initiative pertaining to corporate social responsibilities (human rights, work conditions, respect of the environment and fight against corruption).
PARTNERSHIP WITH “VENDREDI”
A Competency Sponsorship program launched in 2021, operated together with the association Vendredi.
ECOVADIS GOLD LABEL 2021
For the 6th year running, Square has been granted the Gold Ecovadis certification. This achievement allows the group to join the top 5% of firms evaluated by Ecovadis. Square’s CSR approach is integrated into a continuous improvement approach. Thanks to all the employees for their actions and their contribution to this achievement.
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MEMBER OF THE SBTi INITIATIVE
Fully aware of the current environmental challenges and of its responsibility as an organization, Square is a member of the SBTi initiative (“well below 2°C” objective). The group’s objectives will be submitted in November 2021.
LIFE QUALITY AT WORK
Launched in 2019, the partnership between Square and Gymlib allows all the employees of the group to use a complimentary access to more than 3,000 sport studios in France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
GUIDE FOR THE ECO-RESPONSIBLE CONSULTANT
Let us all be actors of the change. At home and at work, our actions leave a more or less significant environmental footprint. We can act at an individual level and participate, with the group, to the limitation of this negative footprint of our planet.
GENDER EQUALITY INDEW
Gender Equality has been declared a great cause of his mandate by the President of the Republic.
Therefore a mechanism has been designed, making it possible to any French company with more than fifty employees to self-assess each year with respect to gender equality: the Gender Equality Index.
Therefore a mechanism has been designed, making it possible to any French company with more than fifty employees to self-assess each year with respect to gender equality: the Gender Equality Index.
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