Social Responsibility
Charity
We encourage our team to give back and we support numerous charities and community organizations including:
AmeriCares, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boy Scouts of America, The Kennedy Funding Invitational, National Down Syndrome Society, National MS Society, Palo Alto Little League Challenger Division.
The Environment
In the U.S. we encourage the use of Mass Transit by offering a Commuter Benefits Program enabled by Transit Center, Inc. This program provides tax benefits for team members who use mass transit or vanpooling. Our corporate headquarters and our San Jose offices have direct access to Light Rail, Train & Bus service with Light Rail stops literally steps from our doors. Our London and Hong Kong offices are all just a short walk from local train stations and bus stops. Use of mass transit saves the U.S. 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline per day and produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide and about half as much carbon dioxide per passenger mile as private vehicles.
In our corporate offices we have replaced bottled water with an environmentally friendly water filtration system.
We have instituted a program to subsidize the purchase or lease of hybrid vehicles by team members.
We have implemented power conservation efforts in our data centers. Power consumption is a key consideration for every piece of hardware we evaluate/purchase.