How is Business Space contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals?

The UN SDGs is an agenda adopted back in 2015 and you can read more if you follow the link to their website.

There are still people in business who are finding their way to better ways of working and for many businesses, there is work to be done for the staff team to better understand the full scope of sustainability.

Being a sustainable business is so much more than recycling and thinking about carbon footprints, although this is an important part too, of course!

This blog looks to the focus the Business Space Team have set their sights upon for the coming 12 months, we are all on this journey and this blog space is where we can all share our work to doing better, through business, for our planet.

Good health and Wellbeing

When the Business Space team set up in business together through our marketing agency, TIEM Design, we wanted to create a way of working that put our mental wellbeing at the forefront of our way of working.

We work remotely, finding shared spaces to work in where are able to be flexible in how we approach our work. We work flexibly to help each other to navigate life. This includes working remotely but also extends to working hours where we trust each other to complete our responsibilities on our own timetable. This can see us working early or working late, but it means we work when we are motivated and effectively giving the best results for our clients.

This is perhaps a tenuous link to Goal 3- Good Health and Wellbeing, but we feel that by valuing the mental wellbeing of our team, we are taking care of those in our immediate business environment and modelling how flexible working can be successful working. This is a way of working that just wouldn’t have worked pre pandemic, so we have taken the opportunity provided to work differently and we know it is working for us. For our mental health, for our work life balance and for our contribution to sustainable living with less consumption of energy for a business premises or travel to get to a studio.

Gender Equality

We have a clear selection process when it comes to choosing who we work with as a team. If we feel we do not align with the ethos of a company, we will politely decline to work with them, taking a stand against working in ways that may damage our wellbeing. This is the beginning of our action for gender equality and the responsibility we take as global citizens.

We are a balanced team, we truly have equity with the core team members and the wider team of freelancers and suppliers we work with show the success of both men and women, purely selecting who we work with on their talents and their values. Our TIEM Design agency is led by a female and a male director, and our wider team also show the talents of women who have been successful in male dominated marketing and web technology professions.