June 27 2023

Overview

Humans Not Robots Ltd is committed to helping deliver an environmentally sustainable media production, distribution, and broadcast industry.

We seek to better understand and manage our impact, implementing initiatives to act on our opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

Humans Not Robots Ltd is a remote-first employer with zero physical footprint, employees distributed across Western Europe and customers distributed across Western Europe and North America.

Our impacts

Humans Not Robots Ltd provides a SaaS tool to the media and broadcast industry that is cloud native and is not hosted in traditional physical data centres. We provides no physical products or services. Our primary footprint is travel cost to customers.

Our potential to make a difference

Whilst Humans Not Robots Ltd footprint is light, our product provides observability data to support our customers understanding and ability to address sustainability concerns across the media supply chain.

Our actions

Working with our employees we will ensure,

• Un-necessary travel is eliminated (i.e. internal meetings and customer meetings - majority held by video call)
• Prefer use of remote communication tools (i.e. Slack, Zoom, Notion, etc.) over travel
• Where travel is necessary, we will roll-up travel to ensure one or two day trips are eliminated and use the most carbon friendly mode of transport:
  • Train rather than car or plane for domestic travel
  • Economy travel only for international travel
  • Avoid connecting flights where possible
  • Team travel in one mode of transport where possible, all together i.e. cutting down usage of multiple flights, cars or trains etc
  • Aim to green certified accommodation where this is viable
• We will put sustainability questions to our suppliers to ensure we are able to make sustainability-prioritised choices (e.g. AWS)
• We will support our staff in making informed choices in their private lives:
  • Through company and individual focussed sustainability training
  • By providing green salary sacrifice schemes
  • By guiding best choices in relation to energy supply and heat management, recycling and other high-impact home decisions

Our approach to remote working

To ensure a sustainable approach in our remote working we focus on,

• Ensuring all equipment purchases are made from sustainable sources, where possible
• Promoting regular environmental and sustainability training to staff