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Example of a small software and consulting company from French-speaking Switzerland

Publikationsdatum: 2. April 2025
Letzte Änderung: 8. April, 2025

This Swiss IT company with around 15 employees had already successfully implemented several digital transformation projects. The company follows a clear strategy for greater sustainability through social equality and further training and has therefore included its suppliers in its objectives .

Goal 1

Starting in 2025, sustainability will be applied as a mandatory criterion in the selection of suppliers and IT solutions.

Measures

  • Build sustainability criteria into all supplier selection processes. Regularly check whether suppliers continue to meet requirements and, if needed, jointly develop concrete, time-bound action plans to address any shortcomings.
  • Define specific internal company requirements (from the sustainable procurement toolbox) for the company's suppliers.
  • Give preference to suppliers with environmental or social certifications recognised by the Swiss Accreditation Service SAS.

Goal 2

By 2025, we will ensure that the employability and professional development of all employees are strengthened through training.

Measures

  • Choose training programmes that align with the company's mission and sustainable values.
  • Set up a tool to record and track training courses and a monitoring process to evaluate results and implement improvements.
  • Create individual training plans for all staff. Review progress and commitment quarterly and present staff training status at company meetings.
  • Include 'Green Coding' in all training programmes. Green coding is part of eco-design, which reduces energy consumption and environmental impact over a product's entire life cycle by minimising processor instructions and memory usage.

Goal 3

By 2022, we will achieve pay equality for all employees and obtain certification for pay equality.

Measures

  • Ensure equal pay for all staff (for example using the (p. ex. au the Logib equal pay analysis or wage calculator including fair wages for apprentices (for example following ICT job profile association wage recommendations).
  • Have HR regularly review salary distribution in the company, particularly focusing on pay differences where qualifications and/or responsibilities are equal.
  • Publish the salary scale (at least internally) to ensure transparency for all internal and external stakeholders.

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