Our Corporate Responsibility

In terms of environmentally sustainable computing, the GrECo Group has significantly reduced its carbon footprint during the last decade. Regarding IT hardware, for example, we have introduced a private cloud. This allowed us to get rid of 71% of our physical servers. In addition, we are constantly optimising the cooling of our server room as well as our IT environment (e.g. servers, client hardware, telephony solution) to further cut energy costs. For example, we saved almost 52% of energy by introducing the newest generation of telephones. Similarly, a lot of other IT equipment utilises a power save mode when not in use. Since 2014, the GrECo Centre in Vienna, including the IT Centre, has also been operating on a 100% renewable (CO2 neutral) energy supply.

GrECo endeavours to constantly increase the number of e-cars in our fleet. Currently around 13% of the fleet are e-cars, in addition there are more than 20 plug-in hybrid cars in use. This means that more than a third of our fleet are electrified vehicles. The group follows the environmental friendly policy of the Austrian government (e.g. tax exemption in kind for company cars without any CO2 emission – electric vehicles) and provides incentives for the usage of e-cars. The purchase prize maximum for an e-car is higher than for cars with fuel engine and a financial support for a wall box for charging the e-car at home is granted. In the second half of the year 2020, an additional incentive was created to bring the expansion of e-mobility a step forward. In the coming year GrECo aims to have a 50% quote of e-cars in their fleet. In Austria in particular, efforts have been taken to install internal charging infrastructure at all locations throughout the country. At the GrECo Centre in Vienna, the number of charging points has been increased from eleven to thirty.

To reduce paper waste several initiatives have already been started: our office printers are by default printing on both sides, many templates are available electronically and can be sent via email, the usage of electronical signatures has been introduced and in all offices the printers are also able to scan documents. To further increase the use of electronical archiving the digital file was declared the leading file for all GrECo markets. Since 2015, we have been using a professional digital printing machine, for the purpose on printing on demand. Thus, we avoid the disposal of outdated marketing material, as we are now producing smaller amounts of the mentioned documents.