For the ninth consecutive year, Xerox (NYSE: XRX) has been named to the “100 Best Corporate Citizens List” by Corporate Responsibility Magazine, one of North America’s leading voices on corporate responsibility.
Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine, which analyzes best practices and tracks CSR trends, recognized Xerox for its programs that work to nurture a greener world, create diverse and inclusive workplaces, and strong, viable communities where its employees and customers work and live.
CR Magazine ranks companies in seven categories: environment; climate change; employee relations, human rights; corporate governance; financial performance; philanthropy and community support. According to the magazine, companies included on the list “deliver on their commitments to transparency and accountability in highly competitive industries.”
Xerox programs for corporate social responsibility outreach include the following:
- Xerox Green World Alliance: A deposit program in which an estimated 2.5 million cartridges and toner containers are recycled annually. This has kept more than 145 million pounds of waste out of landfills over the past 20 years.
- Participation in Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EEIC), a standards-based approach to monitoring labor, health and safety. This shapes Xerox’s policy letter on human rights.
- Xerox Philanthropy: Programs focused on employee-driven volunteer efforts on specific projects in their communities. These include an effort to increase the number of women and minorities following STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and career paths.
The “100 Best Corporate Citizens List” was first published in 1999 in Business Ethics Magazine, and has been managed by CR Magazine since 2007. To compile the list, every company in the Russell 1000, the highest ranked stocks in the Russell 3000 Index of publicly held U.S. companies, is ranked according to 303 data points. The methodology for generating the list is governed by the Ratings and Rankings Thought Leadership Council of the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA).
For more information about Corporate Social Responsibility at Xerox see our Report on Global Citizenship.
About Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an $11 billion technology leader that innovates the way the world communicates, connects and works. Our expertise is more important than ever as customers of all sizes look to improve productivity, maximize profitability and increase satisfaction. We do this for small and mid-size businesses, large enterprises, governments, graphic communications providers, and for our partners who serve them.
We understand what’s at the heart of work – and all of the forms it can take. We embrace the increasingly complex world of paper and digital. Office and mobile. Personal and social. Every day across the globe – in more than 160 countries – our technology, software and people successfully navigate those intersections. We automate, personalize, package, analyze and secure information to keep our customers moving at an accelerated pace.
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