ESG & Sustainability
Environment, Social and Governance commitments framed the way our customers, our team and our community deserve: with clear targets, transparent measurement, and the discipline to actually deliver against them.
Our approach
We're not a global multinational. We are a Sydney-based, Australian-staffed, mid-market technology firm with around 200 people. That gives us both the responsibility to act and the ability to do so authentically — without greenwash, without performative claims, without the inertia that comes with vast scale.
We've taken the patterns we admire from the world's strongest ESG programs — Microsoft's measurement discipline, Atlassian's transparency, B-Corp's verification standard, Patagonia's environmental honesty — and translated them into commitments that actually fit a 200-person Australian organisation: specific, costed, measurable, and reported every year.
Our commitments at a glance
Across all System Squared offices and our Sydney North Integration Centre across all sites — through a combination of GreenPower contracts and verified renewable energy certificates (RECs).
Sydney North Integration Centre achieved carbon-neutral status. Extending the same Scope 1 & 2 neutrality across all four Australian offices.
Measured Scope 3 emissions baseline (supply chain, business travel, employee commute, product lifecycle) published, with a 30% reduction target on the horizon.
100% of devices we touch through our Integration Centre disposed of via certified channels — NIST-grade data destruction, environmental recycling, with chain-of-custody reporting to every customer.
Every System Squared employee gets one paid volunteer day per year for a charity or community cause of their choosing. 100% participation target. Reported annually.
Our Reflect RAP, established with Reconciliation Australia, continuing with a documented progression toward an Innovate RAP. Acknowledgement of Country is standard at every formal meeting.
Active sponsorship of three nominated charity partners, plus matched payroll giving for any cause an employee chooses. Total community contribution published in our annual ESG report.
Aligned to WGEA reporting. Pay gap measured, published and actively closed — targeting less than 5% across like-for-like roles, narrowing each year.
Confidential EAP for every employee and immediate family. R U OK Day participation. Manager training in psychological safety. Annual engagement and wellbeing survey published internally.
Cyber risk on the leadership agenda every quarter. Independent annual security audit. Customer data sovereignty maintained — all client data resident in Australia.
Modern Slavery Statement published annually. Supplier Code of Conduct in effect. Tier-1 supplier ESG assessment in place; expanding to Tier-2 next phase.
Independent whistleblower channel. Annual code-of-conduct attestation by 100% of employees. Published anti-bribery and conflict-of-interest policies.
Environment — in detail
100%
target across all sites
Achieved ✓
Sydney North — extending to all offices
↓ 30%
reduction target, baseline in progress
0%
100% certified disposal pathway
Social — in detail
Governance — in detail
Our governance commitments are deliberately specific, measurable, and lived every day — not just published once a year. They cover how we run the business, how we treat each other, and how we choose the partners and customers we engage with.
Roadmap
| Commitment | Achieved | Current | Near-term | Long-term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon neutral (Scope 1 & 2) | Sydney North ✓ | All offices | Maintain | Maintain |
| 100% renewable electricity | In progress | 100% | Maintain | Maintain |
| Scope 3 baseline & reduction | Scoping | Baseline published | ↓ 10% | ↓ 30% |
| Volunteer day participation | 85% | 95% | 100% | 100% |
| RAP — Reconciliation Australia | Reflect ✓ | Reflect — annual review | Innovate | Stretch |
| Gender pay gap (like-for-like) | < 7% | < 5% | < 3% | 0% |
| Tier-1 supplier ESG assessment | In progress | Tier-1 100% | Tier-2 launched | Tier-2 100% |
Reporting
Published annually covering the previous financial year. Audited Scope 1 & 2 emissions, social commitments, governance attestations.
Lodged with the Australian Government Modern Slavery Statements Register annually.
Annual gender equality reporting submitted to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.