Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be divided into four main categories: workplace, environment, community and social issues. Below is a look at what we’re doing here at STB in each of these areas.
Workplace
STB prides itself on providing a workplace that works for all employees. To ensure this is achieved, we offer a Hybrid Working Model, a Remote Working Policy, which includes the option to work remotely from anywhere for one week per year, and a Flexible Working Policy, which offers customised working patterns to support carers of dependants, as well as all team members, in achieving an optimum work-life balance.
There is also a Health and Wellbeing Policy in place at STB, which promotes good mental health, provides mental health guidance for employees and line managers, and offers Wellness Action Plans (for remote and in-office working). Selected staff have also been trained as Mental Health First Aiders.
STB is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer, as highlighted in our recruitment materials and backed up with the provision of relevant training to line managers. As a translation agency, our staff naturally hail from different nations and have various mother tongues, so we always seek to promote a diverse and inclusive workforce. We endeavour to celebrate cultural diversity through company-wide engagement with our staff members’ national or cultural festivities. Gender equality is also promoted with staff being given the option to define their own gender pronouns and use a mixed-gender bathroom.
Environment
STB recognises the adverse impact businesses can have on the environment and is committed to reducing this by improving workplace sustainability. STB’s efforts and commitments towards environmental sustainability are set out in an Environmental Sustainability Policy. This includes efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the implementation of a hybrid working model, as well as pledges to reduce waste and maximise recycling. The targets set out in this policy are regularly monitored.
STB takes a transparent and honest approach to its efforts toward improving workplace sustainability and is dedicated to sharing this data with staff members, clients and suppliers in the form of a sustainability report. This report will be reviewed on an annual basis to ensure STB is on track to meet its targets.
Social issues
To support social issues, STB employees can volunteer for a registered charity or social enterprise of their choice and full-time employees are allowed to book up to two working days per year to dedicate to an initiative that is meaningful to them.
We also support a calendar of regular fundraising events. These include participation in Macmillan coffee mornings, Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day and crafting events for mental health charities, such as Mind. This year, we volunteered at Horsley Big Day Out to support the charity Cherry Trees.
As an example of the kind of initiatives we have in this area, for every response we received to the annual customer survey 2022, we made donations to charities nominated by our clients or selected by us on their behalf, including Macmillan Cancer Research, PEN International, Bowel Cancer UK, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Blue Cross, Dog’s Trust, Save the Children and WWF.
We are an official in-kind sponsor of Translators without Borders: https://translatorswithoutborders.org/sponsors/in-kind-sponsors/. We’ve also supported them in the past with other fundraising campaigns, including this one: https://twitter.com/STB_Ltd/status/1213091439263047680?s=20
