How We Support Sustainability Year Round - Seite 2

With Northern Trust, our people do not have to choose between a dynamic career and work-life balance. They can join a team like ours that supports their goals, professionally and personally, and enables them to enjoy both. We'll help them get to where they want to go.

Virtual Interviewing - We now allow for virtual interviewing, which means it is no longer always necessary for our candidates to have to travel to the office during the recruitment process. This has impacted our candidate pool greatly, allowing for a more flexible approach to interviewing and again completely reducing our carbon emissions during the pre-hire process.

Volunteering efforts and community impact

We make sure that Northern Trust employees can take time to make a difference in their communities. We make it easy by offering all staff two paid volunteer days each year.

This means they can give of their time and help causes close to their hearts, many of which are in the sustainability space. Over the last decade, our employees have given over 1 million hours of their time to volunteer projects.

Check out our 2023 Philanthropic Impact Report for more details.

Office-focused sustainability

We are actively making efforts to become single use plastic free across all of our office locations. Each office is progressing at a different pace based on alternative supply in each location. Currently, our offices are an average of 50% single use plastic free at each site.

We are currently trialling alterative plastic free bin bags and also compostable straws in some of our global locations, as well as supporting the use of non-plastic items where possible. For example, in Ireland, plastic cups, plates and cutlery have all been replaced with ceramic/stainless steel apart from mugs where each staff member has their own travel mug. And we're working on the same for our Chicago offices.

We're supporting the environment in other ways as well. In our Limerick, Ireland, office beehives have been installed, and in our Luxembourg office a vegetable garden has also been created for employees. A similar employee garden is planned for Limerick later on this year. Both beehives and garden improve local biodiversity through pollination. The honey is even shared with visitors to our office.

We're also looking at energy use in our offices. At Northern Trust, we don't create a material product, but we use electricity to run our offices. Through working with suppliers and upgrading utility contracts we aim to increase use of renewable energy over the course of 2024.