Big U.K. firms should give employees more of a say in greening their workplaces, and U.S. companies need to live up to their eco-friendly business practices internally as well as externally, according to findings from two worker attitude surveys.
The separate surveys asked jobholders to assess their green activities and those of their employers. The U.S. workers were also asked about what motivates companies to adopt green business practices.
According to 1,200 U.K. workers surveyed by power and gas giant E.ON, jobholders at small to medium-sized firms are significantly more likely to help curb energy use and carbon emissions by turning off lights and computers and recycling than employees at larger companies, who say bureaucracy hampers their efforts.
In the U.S., a survey of 755 workers commissioned by the Marlin Company found that 63 percent considered themselves more green than their employers, and 36 percent said they believe that companies adopt environmentally friendly practices to obtain positive publicity or be politically correct. Read more
Source GreenBiz
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