01732 759725 14 BULLETIN Konica Minolta recognised as top employer Konica Minolta has been officially certified by the Top Employers Institute for a sixth consecutive year, in recognition of its exceptional employee offerings. Chief People Officer Gemma Lee said: “The professional talent market is fiercely competitive, and we strive to be the employer of choice. As well as demonstrating our commitment to this, the Top Employers accreditation also gives us an excellent opportunity to reflect on what we’re doing and to compare it to best practice across various sectors, making improvements and changes to ensure we remain market leading in our people practices and overall experience for all of our employees, both current and for the future.” Konica Minolta’s commitment to its employee experience includes a range of initiatives. For example, a choice-based working approach gives full flexibility to employees to work when, where, and how they want to and has proven to be critical in maintaining a work/ life balance. This is further supported by the intelligent use of digital communications (chiefly Microsoft Teams) to ensure working flexibility and continual connection from any location, with several thriving channels for all employees to access a variety of topics (e.g., diversity and inclusion, virtual book clubs, well-being etc.) The company also supports initiatives that create a fully inclusive workplace for all. These include employee representative groups (ERGs) – vibrant (for the LGBTQ+ community), breathe (the well-being network), and balance (for gender equality). Each ERG is designed to educate, raise awareness, and drive true change and development in the organisation, looking closely at existing processes and programmes, and making inclusive changes at every stage. www.konicaminolta.co.uk Software collaboration Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe and Seenspire have collaborated to enhance the digital signage experience for their customers. Accessible with NEC MediaPlayer’s running on MPi4 Kits or MPi4 Box in its large-format displays, Sharp/NEC will be the first to offer Seenspire’s intuitive content app for digital signage. Through a single app, companies can attract the crowd’s attention to displays by simply drawing on unlimited content and additionally support signage installations and further enhance their messages. “We are excited to partner with Sharp/NEC and bring to market the very first digital signage display with a built-in Seenspire content app,” said Samuel Mekonen, Co-founder and CEO at Seenspire. “Sharp/NEC users now have frictionless access to a wide range of dynamic content feeds designed to keep the digital signage communication channel fresh and relevant." Nils Karsten, Business Segment Lead Retail at Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe added: “The Seenspire content app, committed to delivering the highest standards of content for digital signage, considers viewing experience (VX), user experience (UX), and unlimited access through a single app with our displays. This way, we can offer our customers a signage solution with always up to date content, which can fulfil any form of application requirement in any vertical deployment scenario.” www.sharpnecdisplays.eu www.seenspire.com Ricoh makes Global 100 list Ricoh has been rated as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the world for the eleventh time. The Global 100 is an annual ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations published by Canada-based Corporate Knights. The 19th annual ranking, the 2023 Global 100, assessed 6,720 publicly-traded companies with over US$1 billion in revenue. President and CEO Jake Yamashita said: “In 2020, we positioned ESG initiatives as future financial targets, one of the dual companywide management targets along with regular financial goals. This ranking is a testament to Ricoh’s continuous and accelerated commitment to sustainability, such as incorporating ESG indicators into our executive compensation and actively lobbying for climate change action by joining the conversation on renewable energy with the Japanese government.” www.ricoh.co.uk Five years of giving back Acronis is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Acronis Cyber Foundation Program, a set of philanthropic initiatives designed to engage with partners on community development projects and provide volunteering opportunities to team members around the world. Founded in 2018, the program has been strongly dedicated to education by funding school construction and bringing IT skills training to communities around the globe. The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program, with collaboration from partners, has built 18 schools with five additional schools in construction progress in 22 different countries. This initiative has benefited over 5,500 students who now have access to quality education. To further support education, 12 schools have been equipped with computer classrooms to provide students with access to technology and the chance to benefit from learning in a digital environment. In addition to building schools, the program has engaged in educational projects with over 14,000 people taking part in Acronis IT Skills Training programs and has brought humanitarian aid to over 5,000 individuals in underserved communities. Acronis invites all businesses, large or small, to engage in joint projects. For partners wanting to develop their own community development plans, the program can help in supporting other initiatives as well. www.acronis.org www.trawards.co.uk
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