Workplace Sustainability docx.

WORKPLACE
SUSTAINABILITY
STUDENT DETAILS
STUDENT DETAILS

ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY 1
In this essay, there will be a discussion about workplace sustainability. As, most of the people
spend more time in the office than in their home. Thus, it is extremely important that their
workplace should pursue all the norms of a healthy and sustainable work environment in an
effective and efficient way. The selected company for this essay is the National Australia
Bank (NAB). NAB is counted in one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in
terms of market capitalization, earnings and customers. As of 2014, it operated 1590 branches
with 4412 ATMs across Australia. In this essay, there will be a discussion about the
workplace sustainability policy in the NBA.
Assessment 1
Workplace sustainability policy
With the green movement in Australia, NAB forms a sustainability policy. As green
movement aims that sustainability is the capacity to meet with or fulfill important human
needs without putting an adverse effect on the future generation. The core concept of
sustainability aims at utilizing natural resources at an identical level with Nature or the
environment's ability to replenish it. Sustainability policies help an organization to minimize
their wastage and allows them to save cost. For example: when an organization adopts for
making a policy such as to adopt the methods for paper recycling can help the management to
avoid tonnes of forestry products plus water and energy (Yoshikawa and Kogi, 2019).
While making a sustainability policy NAB gains information from the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). This is Australia's national
environment law which empowers the organization to adopt the workplace sustainability
policy in order to put a positive effect on the environment in an effective and efficient way.
CEO. Ross McEwan announces to commit $70billion to environmental financing by 2025 to
succour the country in addressing major issued from climate change. Apart from this, the

ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY 2
company can adopt various strategies for workplace sustainability such as replacing light
bulbs with low-level energy bulbs such as LEDs, CFLs, etc. Allowing employees to take
work from home once a week. Giving an extra incentive to those employees who use public
transport to travel or adopts carpools, etc (Wolf, et. al., 2018).
The company can adopts the policy of allowing employees to take work from home once a
week because it will help them in experiencing enhanced productivity of the employees and
when there will be fewer employees in the office for a particular day in the week then it will
also beneficial for the company because it will help the management to save the cost of the
lights. For insistence. As of 2014, there are 1590 branches in the country, when the company
chooses to allow their employee for a wok then it can save around $100,000 for a month
(Nab.com.au, 2019). Adopting this sustainability policy will help an organization in
reflecting its commitment to sustainability as an integral part of business planning. The
environment and sustainability commitment of the NAB define that they care about the planet
by adopting a sustainable approach for managing their business and to help their customers
(Turi and Sorooshian, 2019).
Communication of workplace sustainability policy
It is observed that employees play less attendance to the sustainability policies that are
adopted by the employers. Even worse is that many CEO of the big corporation in Australia
take genuine efforts to reduce the negative environment efforts but they fail at the ground
level when employees do not pay attention and act effectively in order to implement the
policy (Letts, 2019). In this paragraph, there will be a discussion about the communication of
workplace sustainability policy. Here, communicating sustainability policy implies
establishing effective communication between the management and employees so that
employees can effectively take action on the sustainability policy of the company. As, only