Digital Workplace Sustainability Models

Digital and Sustainability Integration 🌍 This framework developed by Bain & Company shows how digital technologies can strengthen sustainability strategies when they are applied in a coordinated way across the business. The approach is presented as a game plan, highlighting different actions to drive transformation, build resilience, and capture opportunities. It organizes the strategy into three key zones: offense, midfield, and defense. Each zone addresses different levers companies can use to combine digital tools with sustainability goals, creating a balanced and forward-looking approach. The offense zone focuses on renewing strategies, innovating with agility, and building collaborations across value chains. These actions help accelerate the benefits of integration while anticipating risks, testing new solutions, and forming partnerships that expand reach and impact. In the midfield, the emphasis is on measuring performance, optimizing processes, reducing waste, and augmenting work models. Accurate measurement and transparent tracking enable better decision-making, while digital optimization unlocks efficiencies in resources, materials, and operations. Reducing waste and improving circularity remain central, supported by digital technologies that make recycling, reuse, and redesign easier to scale. Hybrid work models are enhanced through digital platforms that expand access to talent and strengthen inclusion. The defense zone covers reskilling employees, protecting stakeholders, and securing systems. Preparing the workforce for the era of automation ensures adaptability, while strong digital safeguards protect people, data, and operational integrity. Digital and sustainability agendas are becoming increasingly interconnected as businesses recognize that one enables the other. Digital tools provide the data, automation, and analytical capabilities needed to measure impact, optimize resource use, and scale sustainable practices across entire value chains. At the same time, sustainability priorities guide the focus of digital investments, ensuring technology is applied where it delivers environmental and social value alongside financial returns. This convergence is accelerating because market expectations, regulations, and competitive pressures demand solutions that are both efficient and responsible. From AI-powered energy management to blockchain-based supply chain traceability, the technologies driving digital transformation are also unlocking new pathways for sustainable growth. #sustainability #business #sustainable #esg

Are we contributing to digital carbon waste at work without realizing it? When you think about sustainability, digital waste might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But in today’s hyper-connected world, it should be. Emails, unnecessary cloud storage, and always-on devices silently contribute to our carbon footprint. 🌱 As a sustainability professional, I’ve learned that small, thoughtful changes in the workplace can make a significant difference. Let me share a simple roadmap to kickstart the conversation and take action with your team: 1️⃣ Start with Awareness: 💬 Talk to your leader. Express your concern about digital waste and its impact on the planet. Suggest involving technology, HR, and sustainability teams to create a holistic plan. 📊 Educate your team. Hold a meeting to explain what digital waste is and why it matters. Use relatable examples and statistics to drive the point home. Did you know that storing 1GB of data in the cloud can produce about 2kg of CO2 annually? 2️⃣ Take Action Within Your Team: 🛠 Set clear objectives. Decide on specific, actionable goals, like reducing unnecessary emails, cleaning up shared drives, or limiting video call durations. 📈 Measure progress. Use tools or trackers to see how your efforts reduce digital waste over time. Share results to keep everyone motivated. 3️⃣ Scale the Effort: 🤝 Inspire others. Share your team’s success with other departments. Create workshops to engage them and grow the initiative. 📄 Propose inclusion in sustainability reports. Many companies already publish carbon footprint reports—why not add a section on reducing digital waste? This approach isn’t just about the numbers it’s about creating a shared sense of purpose. By working together, we can reduce the hidden costs of our digital habits and contribute to a greener future. In my experience, starting small but thinking big always pays off. Every file deleted, email avoided, and cloud folder organized matters. What steps is your organization taking to minimize its digital carbon footprint? 💡 Let’s start the conversation: #Sustainability #DigitalCarbonFootprint #Teamwork #GreenerFuture

🌱 Sustainable Design Patterns And UX Toolkits. With practical guidelines, frameworks, tools and resources to focus on what matters and remove what doesn't (scroll down for the newsletter) ↓ ✅ Always choose the lightest mode of communication. ✅ Encourage the reuse of existing templates and presets. ✅ Auto-delete after 365 days what hasn’t been used once. ✅ Discourage users from PDF exports in favor of URLs. ✅ Always provide audio-only/transcript for videos. ✅ Be intentional with default settings for your users. ✅ Highlight key insights to create understanding faster. ✅ Skip unnecessary pages: drive users to results faster. ✅ Establish an archiving and deletion policy. ✅ Show filters/presets in autocomplete, not just keywords. ✅ Nudge users to delete old files for 10% off that month. ✅ Encourage and reward users for trying out dark mode. ✅ Aim to reduce session duration instead of increasing it. ✅ Question font weights, stock photos, parallax, 4K-videos. ✅ Question collected data, if it’s used and when it’s deleted. Digital sustainability is often seen as a technical concern for engineers. We mostly speak about optimization of assets and server efficiency. In fact, we rarely explore sustainability from the perspective of UX. But as designers we have a huge impact on how sustainable or wasteful our digital experiences are. Most of our environmental impact happens on our user’s devices, so we can help our users by reducing waste and focusing on what matters. Typically, when we, as designers, speak about sustainability, we mean at least 4 facets of it: 🌱 Reducing waste ← In publishing, heavy visuals, animation, PDFs 🌻 Deleting content ← Un-publishing outdated, misleading content/flows, 🐝 Maximize reusability ← UI components, flows, processes, templates, 🌳 Sustainable defaults ← Help people make more sustainable choices Individual actions drive changes at scale, but they need a momentum. And often that momentum comes through small changes: new default settings, reduced time on task, or showing key insights, rather than all data. That’s also just good usability that can have tangible impact for users and businesses. Most importantly: whenever possible, hold on to your devices as long as possible, and encourage your customers to do the same. And if a meeting helps you reduce wasteful work done by 20 people, it’s the time worth taking. --- 👋🏼 I'm Vitaly Friedman, a UX lead who loves design, usability, writing, checklists and running UX workshops. You can find useful UX resources on my profile. I’m also running “Smart Interface Design Patterns” 🍣 (https://lnkd.in/d4CNaTxR) with a friendly video library and live UX training. 😊 #ux #design