Sustainability and ESG

Park Place Technologies’ Environmental, 社会与治理(ESG)的成功是由我们做了什么以及如何做来衡量的.

ESG结果越来越成为衡量公司业绩的标准. Environmental stewardship is a puzzle piece necessary to navigate climate impacts and is now being legislated. Social engagement is key to hiring, 培养和留住那些让我们超越同业的人才. 适当的治理等同于高质量的领导和降低风险, which makes Park Place a high performer, a stable platform for our employees, and a trusted partner to our customers.

Our Business—Customer Sustainability

From our founding in 1991, Park Place一直致力于帮助我们的客户延长数据中心计算机设备的使用寿命. Since that date, 数据中心的范围和规模呈爆炸式增长, 随着公园广场与我们的客户同步发展, continuing to provide data center hardware maintenance services and expanded support with network and hardware monitoring and triage services. Our impact has been extending the life of computer equipment on average three years across now more than 1.1 million hardware assets.

2020年，派克广场收购了曲率硬件转售业务. Curvature brings our customers a resource for added and replacement equipment from the secondary preowned market. In 2021, 曲度的个人设备销售量超过450台,000 units, 与每个单位的销售节省制造和设备处置的影响, estimated at 950,000 pounds, on our environment.

Park Place continues to innovate, developing complimentary solutions to accompany our hardware maintenance and preowned hardware sales. ParkView Hardware Monitoring, underpinned by our First-Time Fix™ Guarantee, 精确定位故障修复需求，并允许我们在一次行程中解决客户问题. Park Place’s data center efficiency solutions, including Entuity network monitoring, 侨福发现和托管十大赌博正规老平台支持, 消除设备的多余冗余和过早更新IT系统, 这意味着客户的设备在其最长的使用寿命中被利用到最大的潜力.

Park Place的每一位员工都相信，我们是一家遇到了关键时刻的公司. 我们有机会通过每项十大赌博正规老平台和设备销售做出积极的改变, 使我们的客户和社区能够更可持续地开展业务.

Our Company—Corporate Responsibility

At Park Place, we believe we have a responsibility to serve as a role model for the conduct of business in a manner that serves all of our key stakeholders. Our employees expect nothing less. This means that we turn inward and make environmental stewardship a daily activity at Park Place, and that we create opportunities for individuals to build careers and support themselves and their families in a respectful environment. 这意味着我们以合法合规的方式开展业务, 公共政策以及与我们一起工作的人群的道德和价值观是标准. 这也意味着我们先发制人地消除风险，比如数据泄露和网络安全风险.

We have enlisted our Board of Directors, our senior leaders and our employees across the globe to engage in our ESG initiatives and the daily steps that create measurable improvements in our workplace and employee experience, our communities, and our environment. These efforts share common themes. 他们深思熟虑，向前看，有影响力. 我们对自己的进步负责，并努力衡量每一项努力的影响. We look to make positive impacts and to create a contagion of corporate responsibility by leading by example.

Social Initiatives

长期以来，派克广场一直致力于建立公平薪酬的全球基准, generous benefits, equal opportunity, and an inclusive environment. We periodically complete third-party compensation and global benefits reviews and conduct annual employee evaluations and yearly engagement surveys. 我们是一个有意提供平等机会的雇主, sponsor business resource groups, a DEI program, “Dimensions,，并提供多种员工交流机会, including a daily intranet site, leadership “town halls”, and podcasts. 这些都是我们在线员工学习平台的补充, which hosts over 450 active courses, 许多是专门设计的发展课程的一部分. We also have made company success synonymous with employee success through our annual profit-sharing program, in place for more than a decade.

公园广场有社区外展的历史. At the global level, we have partnered with I Wish, an Ireland-based organization committed to showcasing the power of STEM to female secondary students. Most recently, we co-hosted more than 22,000 girls from 26 countries at the I Wish annual event. Community by community, we help Girl Scouts earn cybersecurity badges in Ohio; support campers in Massachusetts with scholarships to Worcester Polytechnic Institute; lend our hands to England’s Future Frontiers, 并在我们总部社区的当地开展“突破学校”和其他学校项目, to foster educational equality through mentoring and support; promote annual philanthropic giving to numerous community and child-focused programs; and donate laptops to schools and charitable organizations, providing coding opportunities to students.

我们的企业文化是不断创新, so the natural next question is, “What more can we do?” Our teams are embarking on additional initiatives that we believe will be game changers for Park Place and the opportunities for individuals who join our organization. These include:

CAREER COHORTS – our employees have the talent, 在公园广场担任领导的动机和动力, 所以我们建立了一个多方面的项目来提供实践, in depth, cross-functional teaching and support with the clearly defined objective of advancing each program participant two or more steps on their Park Place career path and into key leadership roles.

VETERAN HIRING INITIATIVE -我们正在采取措施，成为退伍军人的目的地雇主. We have opportunities across the company with the primary qualification for the position being the energy and commitment to learn and succeed. 我们积极招募退伍军人群体. 我们专门为退伍军人创建了一个业务资源组, 是公园广场最活跃的员工亲密团队之一.

神经多样性/自闭症有意招聘计划 – still in the exploratory stage, this Park Place initiative seeks to become the first in our industry to focus on the unique talents of the neurodiverse population and create a work environment in which the company engages top talent employees by providing the opportunity for work and careers to persons who, 缺乏一个有针对性的项目和适当的支持, may be overlooked.

Environmental Initiatives

在我们的组织中，公园广场的环境管理是用一个常见的短语来描述的, “a million little things.” This speaks to what the company and our individual employees do daily and our plans for next year — and beyond.

Park Place’s Professional Services ITAD team dismantles all customer IT systems with documented disposal in accordance with Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) standards. 曲率硬件保持其R2(负责任的回收)认证, 电子产品回收的最佳实践标准是什么.

在我们的任何一个办公室散步，都可以看到个人和公共空间的回收箱, energy-efficient lighting, and motion-activated switches. 我们的十大赌博正规老平台地点是电子产品回收计划和废品管理的中心. In our parking lots, 我们41%的员工可以使用电动汽车充电站, the majority funded by Park Place, with plans to expand in 2023.

Plans are underway to add solar panels to provide power to one or more of our primary locations in 2023. In addition to this alternative energy source, Park Place tracks global energy consumption and has set a 10% target for energy use reduction for 2023.

To build on the above, 公园广场正在探索碳净中和项目和认证, with the expectation that our efforts to date, 加上我们领导层和每一位员工的承诺, 能否让我们在未来3到5年内实现这一目标.

Governance Initiatives

At Park Place, governance is seen as how our Board of Directors and senior leaders guide the organization to meet priorities, manage risk, 维护公司声誉，尊重公司道德和价值观. 我们ESG项目的治理部门负责监督基于价值的项目, measurable, tracked and reported performance standards that marry business conduct and the collective interests of the company’s stakeholders.

我们的治理任务包括法律遵从性, examples being our data privacy compliance program; antibribery/anticorruption policies; training and monitoring; and our export and import compliance controls. 它还包括公园广场风险管理项目, such our Business Continuity Plan, Employee Hotline, employee cybersecurity training, published policy library, 供应商审查协议和行为准则. Park Place has taken the added steps of aligning with top-tier industry standards and has earned ISO 9001 EMEA Quality Management System, Global ISO 27001 Information System Management and Managed Services SOC2 Data Security Certifications.

Our Board of Directors, executives and senior leaders hold themselves accountable for the business success of the organization, with a further commitment to transparently and honestly communicate company performance to employees and empower employees to contribute to the success of the organization. 除了利润分享，公园广场还有一个广泛的股权参与计划. 每季度由高管领导的全公司范围的市政厅补充了我们每日的内部网“WIRED”。. An annual employee engagement survey includes management follow-up and reporting to the highest levels in the organization.

Conclusion

公园广场的ESG倡议是一项持续改进的任务. 我们为我们迄今为止所完成的工作和我们的公司感到自豪, and we look to amaze our stakeholders and continue to set an example for our corporate peers in the next year and beyond.