Visma’s 2023 Sustainability Report unveiled areas for improvement, particularly within office emissions and travel. Building on the learnings from the report, we held Visma Sustainability Month, a four-week series of internal articles and activities covering Visma’s most relevant sustainability topics. Read on to find out what topics are most important to Visma and how we’re addressing them.
In our recently published sustainability report, employee engagement was one of Visma’s top performing areas. And now, Visma’s latest eNPS ranks us among the top 5% of companies in the IT industry.
Over the past year, two of Visma’s largest and most environmentally sustainable offices have embarked on a program to reduce their electricity use. The reductions have been noteworthy: 37% in our Copenhagen office and 18% in our Oslo headquarters. Read on to find out how we made such significant improvements, and what steps we’re taking to raise the bar even higher.
22 September was International Car-Free Day, and Visma took the opportunity to launch a Group-wide campaign to reduce our car emissions for a week. Find out why we did it, how we planned it, how it went and, most importantly, what we learned.
In 2022, we sharpened our focus as a pure play software company and did what we do best: create solutions that give businesses confidence in an ever-changing landscape. Read more about how we’re setting the standard in our industry.
By making a robot or digital assistant do the most repetitive and boring tasks, companies can focus on more meaningful and value-adding work – benefiting both business and society. So, can the effect of a robot also support companies in being more sustainable?
How do software products affect sustainability? And what is actually better for the climate – reading a printed book or streaming a movie? Read on to find out.
Everyone has a role in protecting the planet. People can tap into their changemaking power, not just in their own lives, but by bringing people together and teaming up. Visma understands that it’s groups that effect the most change, but it starts with the individual. Read on to find out how Visma encourages change at both levels to invest in the future of our planet.
Climate change is a wicked problem. Likewise, the carbon footprint of companies has been wickedly difficult to calculate. Sustion helps organisations to get the data they need to make meaningful, valuable improvements to their climate impact.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and advanced analytics are among the most promising solutions for businesses and society. AI can solve many of society’s sustainability and efficiency challenges, but what are the ethical implications of using such technologies, and what is Visma doing to ensure they are implemented with people in mind?
Lowering the carbon emissions in a company starts with calculating the carbon footprint and reduction goals, which can be challenging. Together with CarbonLink, we are developing a carbon footprint calculator to help companies make useful decisions on the path towards carbon neutrality.
2021 was a year of both continuity and change. Covid remains a burden on the global economy and organisations are looking for cloud solutions to help them stay productive from any location. We also saw new trends, from rising expectations among jobseekers in the talent market, to rapidly growing cybercrime. Learn more about these trends and find out how Visma is addressing them.
During the first E-recycle week at Visma, our employees collected a large amount of electronics for reuse or repurposing. Learn more about what we are doing to reduce our environmental impact.
Many of our employees are making important contributions to their communities through volunteer work. Meet Sander, who combines his job as a Solution Consultant with volunteering at his local fire station.
UN Women states: “The world needs science, and science needs women and girls”. Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and to celebrate it we have talked to the program coordinator of the Finnish initiative Mimmit Koodaa: a program to increase gender equality in the Finnish software industry.
It’s no secret we need more talented people to keep up with the fast development of the technological world. And it all starts with education: investing in getting the younger generation interested in STEM subjects but also encouraging adults to choose a career within tech. That is why we engage in partnerships, local investments, and sponsorships that have a positive impact on society.
Visma Denmark has moved one step closer to a circular economy, thanks to a new e-waste recycling program. Learn more about the program, the first of its kind in Denmark.
What steps is Visma taking to make the world better? Read on to learn about Visma’s concrete actions towards ethical business and group-level sustainability efforts—and how these contribute to the SDGs.