The makers of a new smartphone app called ‘SuMo’ claim it will motivate employees to reduce waste by up to 15% – saving firms money along the way.
CloudApps believes this will help firms to cut their costs by using the game’s challenges, leader boards, badges, points and a reward system.
The app uses competition among teams, offices and individuals to slash wastage in areas such as business travel, energy, heating, cooling, lighting, water and waste.
The makers say companies trialling the beta version cut travel costs by 9% and their energy spend by 10%.
Peter Grant, CEO of CloudApps said the aim is to motivate “entire workforces to become more sustainable by becoming more profitable.”
He added: “Feedback from our customers has told us employee engagement is the biggest challenge they face.”
October 16th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Social media is such an important component of any employee engagement strategy. It allows companies to not only easily track environmental metrics, but to share their sustainability and community involvement stories with the rest of the world.
In addition to SuMo, there are some other platforms out there to take note of. There’s Scope5, which helps companies track CO2 emissions. AngelPoints gathers metrics for large, Fortune 500 companies. And earthbongo helps companies tell their sustainability and community involvement stories both through metrics and employees’ own words, pictures, and videos. The earthbongo platform also allows for easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.
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