Find three ways your business can embrace the sharing economy to deliver sustainability goals.
The climate crisis has become a climate emergency. But what does this mean for your business? In short, it means that there couldn’t be a better time to think of ways to encourage your staff to live more sustainably – both in and outside the workplace.
One way is to educate your organisation about the sharing economy and its benefits. But first, what even is the sharing economy? Put simply, it’s using technology – in the form of an app or an online platform – to connect with other people (rather than businesses) to borrow, rent or swap instead of buying. In other words, it’s anything which could be described as ‘the Airbnb of…’ like listing clothes on a website for others to borrow, or renting a car from a neighbour via an app.
It’s certainly catching on – the total value of the global sharing economy is predicted to incr