{"id":9296,"date":"2017-01-15T00:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research-methodology.net\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T09:26:54","slug":"facebook-csr-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/facebook-csr-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook CSR Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"facebook-csr\"<\/a>Surprisingly, despite the size and scope of its business activities, Facebook Inc. does not release an annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report detailing its programs and initiatives. The company has a dedicated Facebook page \u2018Green on Facebook\u2019 that regularly announces its charitable programs and CSR activities. Additionally, Facebook has a website at www.sustainability.fb.com dedicated for the same purpose.<\/p>\n

The table below illustrates the highlights from the latest report for 2015:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Categories of CSR activities <\/strong><\/td>\nFacebook Performance <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Supporting local\u00a0 communities<\/em><\/td>\nThe company hosts farmers market at its Menlo Park headquarters each week providing fresh produce to the Belle Haven and East Palo Alto communities.Facebook has collaborated with Menlo Park Rotary Club to build The Belle Haven Community Garden, where families in the community now have access to 25 planting beds that are free to use.The company has sponsored solar installations on homes in Belle Haven through its partnership with Menlo Spark and Grid Alternatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Educating and empowering workers <\/em><\/td>\nFacebook has an employee satisfaction rating of 93 per cent due to competitive pay, informal and empowering organizational culture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Labour and human rights <\/em><\/td>\nIt has been noted that \u201cFacebook employees are often placed in roles that cater to their strengths and are encouraged to question and criticize their managers\u201d[1]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Employee health and safety<\/em><\/td>\nFacebook strives to have maximum amount of natural light in its offices and serves local organic food in its kitchens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gender equality and minorities<\/em><\/td>\nWhite males constitute 39.1 per cent of employees and black males and females represent only 1.7 per cent of employees. Also, Hispanic males and females represent only 4.3 per cent of the total workforce[2]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Environment <\/em>a) energy consumption <\/em>b) water consumption <\/em>c) Waster reduction and recycling <\/em><\/p>\n

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d) CO2 emissions <\/em><\/p>\n

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The company has announced that its latest data centre in Los Lunas, New Mexico will be powered with 100% renewable energyIn 2015, the company\u2019s total energy consumption equalled to 1,310,000,000 kWhAbout 221,000,000 gallons of water was used in 2015. Office space and data centres account for 30 per cent and 70 per cent water usage respectively.Water usage effectiveness, i.e. a measure of the amount of water used in a data centre relative to the energy used by the computing equipment\u00a0 for Facebook Inc. is equivalent to 0.24<\/p>\n

The company runs Waste Diversion Program.\u00a0 Waste diversion rate at Menlo Park headquarters exceeds 90 per cent.<\/p>\n

According to the company, \u201cfor an entire year of one person\u2019s Facebook use, our carbon footprint is less than the impact of making one medium sized latte\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2015 Facebook\u2019s total carbon footprint was 649,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. Offices and other business activities account for about 37 per cent of company\u2019s carbon footprint. The remaining 63 per cent is generated in data centers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Other initiatives and charitable donations<\/em><\/td>\nThe company offers advanced transportation system for its employees that includes employee shuttles, as well as resources for ride-sharing, carpooling, taking public transportation, and biking to work.Facebook launched the\u00a0Open Compute Project (OCP), with the aim of creating an open-source movement within the hardware and data center industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/a>Facebook CSR performance[3]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Facebook Inc. Report<\/a>\u00a0contains a criticism of Facebook\u00a0CSR programs and initiatives.\u00a0 The report also illustrates the application of the major analytical strategic frameworks in business studies <\/em>such as SWOT, PESTEL, Porter\u2019s Five Forces, Value Chain analysis and McKinsey 7S Model on Facebook Inc. Moreover, the report contains analysis of Facebook\u2019s marketing strategy along with discussion of its leadership and organizational structure.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Gillett, R. (2015) \u201c8 reasons why working at Facebook is better than working at Google\u201d Business Insider, <\/em>Available at: http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-its-better-to-work-at-facebook-than-google-2015-4<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Seetharaman, D. & Wells, G. (2016) \u201cFacebook\u2019s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap\u201d The Wall Street Journal, <\/em>Available at: http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebooks-point-system-fails-to-close-diversity-gap-1471387288<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a>Figures taken from Facebook official page \u2018Green on Facebook\u2019 and www.sustainability.fb.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

Surprisingly, despite the size and scope of its business activities, Facebook Inc. does not release an annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report detailing its programs and initiatives. The company has a dedicated Facebook page \u2018Green on Facebook\u2019 that regularly announces its charitable programs and CSR activities. Additionally, Facebook has a website at www.sustainability.fb.com dedicated for the same purpose. The table below illustrates the highlights from the latest report for 2015: Categories of CSR activities Facebook Performance Supporting local\u00a0 communities The company hosts farmers market at its Menlo Park headquarters each week providing fresh produce to the Belle Haven and East Palo Alto communities.Facebook has collaborated with Menlo Park Rotary Club to build The Belle Haven Community Garden, where families in the community now have access to 25 planting beds that are free to use.The company has sponsored solar installations on homes in Belle Haven through its partnership with Menlo Spark and Grid Alternatives. Educating and empowering workers Facebook has an employee satisfaction rating of 93 per cent due to competitive pay, informal and empowering organizational culture Labour and human rights It has been noted that \u201cFacebook employees are often placed in roles that cater to their strengths and are encouraged to question and criticize their managers\u201d[1] Employee health and safety Facebook strives to have maximum amount of natural light in its offices and serves local organic food in its kitchens Gender equality and minorities White males constitute 39.1 per cent of employees and black males and females represent only 1.7 per cent of employees. Also, Hispanic males and females represent only 4.3 per cent of the total workforce[2] Environment a) energy consumption b) water consumption c) Waster reduction and recycling \u00a0 d) CO2 emissions \u00a0 The company has announced that its latest data centre in Los Lunas, New Mexico will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[157],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research-methodology.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}