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Workers: Employers Not Green Enough

A majority of U.S. employees feel businesses could be doing more for the environment.

From: Inc.com |By: Alexandra Zendrian

Despite gains in workplace green practices, many workers feel their employers still aren’t doing enough to protect the environment.

Nearly 60 percent of 2,281 workers surveyed by Adecco USA, a Melville, N.Y.-based human resources firm, said they felt their employers should be taking more steps to reduce or recycle waste. Among all respondents, women and younger employees were the biggest supporters of workplace green practices.

For the entire article go to Inc.com

Employees want to work in an ecologically sound business environment. More so, they know that clients will be more responsive to businesses that are going green. So it would stand to reason that your employment candidates with the best potential would gravitate to the more environmentally sound businesses.

So when you are recruiting candidates and preparing to interview them, run background checks and so forth, realize that you will attract the better job candidates by making your business a safe working environment. It may help you reduce your insurance costs, and it will create, overall, a better ambiance.

It pays to hire employees who aspire to green practices. In fact, it may pay to hire a specialist who can turn your business green. You would want to run the education verification as well as the criminal background check and other background searches as part of your preemployment screening package. Put someone on the job who knows what needs to be done to make your office environmentally compliant.

It’s important. It’s healthy. And it’s good for business.

Check them out before you hire. Call Corra for background checking services.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.