Corporate Real Estate’s Guide to the Circular Workplace
Who’s Who in The Circular Workplace (2024)
In the year since Green Standards published our first Circular Workplace report, the members of this coalition have spoken on panels, run workshops, conducted interviews, advised policy makers, and done the hard work to ensure the stuff in our offices stays in use and out of landfill. And the one thing we keep coming back to is this: Collaboration.
There is no such thing as a circular economy of one. Everyone in the modern workplace needs to know that circularity is a proven way to save money, resources, and carbon emissions. The workplace strategist needs insight into how the furniture manufacturer facilitates reuse and repair; the facilities manager requires information on how the remanufacturer can integrate into their operations; and the corporate real estate professional must identify an architect who considers end-of-use planning from the outset.
To enable a true circular workplace, it will take all these individuals working more collaboratively with each other. No one company, team or individual can do this alone.
The State of The Circular Workplace (2023)
Grandes empresas, nuevas empresas innovadoras, ambiciosas organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro y asociaciones sectoriales están avanzando hacia la idea de la oficina sin residuos, y comparten sus mejores prácticas en este nuevo informe de Green Standards. Convertir nuestra economía lineal de "tomar-hacer-residuos" en un bucle regenerativo que elimine los residuos y mantenga los recursos en uso es una tarea ingente. Este informe es una instantánea de dónde estamos ahora, un resumen de lo que tenemos que hacer y una llamada a la acción para los lugares de trabajo de todo el mundo.
This report features insights from Steelcase, Starbucks, General Motors, Haworth, CBRE, Teknion, Davies Office, M Moser, Cuningham, BIFMA, the USGBC, and many more organizations. Together, they show how building owners and occupiers, manufacturers and re-manufacturers, service providers, and the architecture and design community can work together to put circular ideas into practice. The result engages employees, saves money, cuts emissions, and turns the engines of the economy into workshops for the circular economy.
Green Standards, the global sustainable decommissioning company, is building a circular coalition to close the loop on workplace waste.