Corporate and Social Responsibility at T-Systems

Corporate and social responsibility (CSR) can be defined as how a business operates within an ethical framework, ensuring we take responsibility to ensure our activities benefit society and minimize the environmental impact of our operations.

This is a wide ranging topic, one where we recognise our responsibilities to deliver what has been termed the triple bottom line; “people, planet, profit”. In exercising our duties to stakeholders to improve performance it is becoming ever more important to show our commitment to our own people, those in the communities in which we operate and the environment.

CSR is also an area where more and more of our customers are expecting us to have a clear policy and approach as a prerequisite to doing business, as well as being an area that helps us to build pride in our business and our people because of its positive impacts.

Due to the types of services we provide our main focus is on our own people and ensuring that we make a positive contribution to society and the communities in which we operate

WELLBEING

We have quarterly campaigns to raise awareness of important topics like getting fit, stopping smoking, and healthy eating. We offer all employees access to an online wellbing portal called iWill which provides advice and information on the 16 most popular health & wellbeing topics

GIVING SOMETHING BACK

In the UK we demonstrate our commitment to ‘Giving Something Back’ to our local communities by encouraging all our employees to take a paid day off each year to volunteer for the charity of their choice.

Working in a charity shop, training for/competing in a fund-raising charity event, staffing the telephones in your charity’s office and supporting a community project are all examples of charitable activities undertaken by our employees over the past 12 months.

In Milton Keynes we have a number of charities who are excited to be working with us:

• MK Hospital Charity Garden
• Age UK
• The Foodbank
• The Parks Trust
• Keech Hospice Care
• Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
• Willen Hospice
• Macmillan Cancer Support

In London we work with Benefacto who help match peoples’ interests with charities who want your help – it’s as easy as booking a hotel! At our other offices, we encourage staff to work with charities of their choice and work with their colleagues to build relationships and make a difference to those organisations.

We regularly get involved with national fundraising events like Comic Relief, Sport Relief, Macmillian Coffee Mornings, Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day…

GETTING FIT FOR CHARITY

This year we are offering our employees the chance to get involved in two charity challenges – for the super fit we have the UK Challenge, a grueling three-day event designed to test teams to the limit with physical and mental challenges.

For those who prefer a more sedate pace we have the Thames Path Challenge which takes in 16 of London’s bridges in a sponsored 25km walk.

INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIONS

We also play an active role in helping future generations see themselves working in IT. We are a partner in the Modern Muse initiative to inspire girls (aged 8-16) to explore careers in STEM subject (science, technology, engineering sand maths).

We also invite children, grandchildren and nieces/nephews of our employees to a ‘Little Boss meets the Big Boss’ day once a year (aged 7-11). The children get to come to workplace for a day in the summer holidays and find out more about the world of work.

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Read more on the Deutsche Telekom website: https://www.telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility