Workday believes that success for the company can not only be measured in financial terms, but also in how the company operates in the context of community and environment. Companies, as individuals, need to assume responsibility for their actions as part of a global eco-system. Therefore everyone at Workday is committed to eliminate or reduce negative impact to the immediate and global environment.

SaaS is Green

The SaaS business model provides Workday with a unique opportunity to positively impact the global carbon balance. Owners of On-Premise software are typically not strongly focused on reducing electricity usage and operate redundant and often outdated hardware in server rooms that are not optimized for energy-consumption. SaaS can make this old server infrastructure obsolete and centralize the processing into Workday's efficient and clean data centers. This helps customers to achieve their own carbon-neutrality goals more quickly. Also, Workday's multi-tenancy architecture allows us to provide Workday Business Services to our customers with a minimal number of servers as opposed to each customer having to operate a single install on sub-optimal hardware. Finally, modern data centers are pooling large quantities of processing power and can be dramatically optimized for energy- and cooling-efficiency. This way, SaaS is inherently green and helps to achieve the goals for a greener future.

Clean Energy

Workday uses energy from renewable sources to power its office buildings and development data centers. To achieve this we have partnered with Renewable Choice to offset the carbon emissions produced by Workday's energy consumption with the purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

Projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions, such as wind farms or other clean energy projects, can sell RECs to finance their endeavor. This can provide the additional money needed to make a wind energy plant cost-competitive with a coal-fired plant. In this way, more clean energy is produced and the energy mix in the electricity grid is changed from sources such as coal or nuclear energy to renewable and clean energy such as wind, solar, hydro-electric or geo-thermal. You can read more about how offsets work here.

Many companies cannot directly source their electricity from clean sources, but through RECs the same positive global end result can be achieved. The process for RECs is defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the validity of RECs is monitored by a variety of institutions such as Green-e and others.

Energy Conservation

Workday is pursuing energy efficient strategies in all aspects of the operations. This ranges from telecommuting to video conferencing to efficient hardware for all employees and in our hosting operations.

Workday is a member of the Climate Savers initiative. As part of this, we are committed to purchasing energy-efficient hardware (ENERGY STAR 4.0 specification) as well as using efficient power-management settings on all laptops and servers.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Workday strives to reduce office waste such as paper and print products wherever possible. A strict "question every print-out" policy and double-sided, draft printer settings help in this goal. Used printer paper can serve a scrap paper. For all remaining paper waste Workday provides recycling opportunities.

Furthermore, all glass and plastic bottles as well as aluminum cans from our vending machines are collected and properly recycled in all offices. Also, special waste such as old batteries, printer cartridges or cell phones are frequently collected and recycled.

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