Corporate Social Responsibility at WSP New Zealand

Great commitment to carbon reduction in industry

Wsp gives employees a day of volunteer leave every year which encourages more work in the community. On the environmental side, wsp has committed to halving their emissions from 2020 by 2030. I have been doing a bit of work to help with the internal project used to estimate the lifetime emissions of a planned project.

Wsp have made it very clear that they want to incorporate more te reo māori which I am so happy to hear. It is important to me that my works social views are aligned with mine and so far, this seems to be the case.

We put an emphasis on this. Flood recovery projects that put the community's input at the forefront.

From where I stand, wsp has strong beliefs about sustainability and plans in place, eg. Future ready, decarbonise. I was part of the early decarbonise initiative myself and found it to be really helpful in learning about materials and companies that are environmentally more ethical to choose.

My team likes to take on meaningful projects.

Decarbonisation programme to provide internal advice on reducing carbon footprint of projects

Good but with the downfall of the market I can see these slipping

Really nice csr.

WSP has strategic goals and initiatives that are regularly communicated to employees on the Intranet, via email updates, company townhall meetings and sector roadshow sessions. The names and contact details of the champions or people responsible for certain initiatives are also published on the Intranet, so it is easy to reach out to them for questions or suggestions.

WSP is socially responsible and aware

Every employee is given a community day. although thus far the projects haven't seemed to be the best use of employee time. should rather use our skills to promote STEM or do more useful engineering work, rather than weeding gardens which we are useless at

Community day leave for every employee. Working on climate change impacts.

At WSP you get one community day per year which you can take to support a volunteering initiative of your choice. It is a great way to get involved in the community and give back in whatever way you chose to.

Community Day to clean Matakana beach was very good for the local community to keep the environment clean.

Paid community day - volunteer for a charity

Community Day Leave

We all have one annual leave day, called a Community Day, where we are paid to volunteer in the community. Either in an internally organised event or in an opportunity you can organise yourself.

The company has recently had a massive push to acquire environmental firms around the world....because there was almost no push whatsoever. especially in New Zealand, the market "tries" to be more CSR-aware, but has consistently failed.

Each person gets a paid community day each year where we can go into the community to do some charitable work (beach cleanups, plant trees, etc). Fees for community projects are negotiable.