The UK wide Pawprint; Climate Change And Your Workplace Survey, 2021 sought employee opinion on how businesses are responding to the climate threat and the impact this has on employee loyalty.

Only 14% of those questioned believe that UK businesses are doing enough. Younger females were the most scathing about a lack of business action with 63% of 18-24 year old claiming that UK businesses simply aren’t doing enough.

Furthermore, the survey found that 30% of millennials would consider changing jobs if their current employer was not doing enough for sustainability. While 33% of all ages of employees working in travel and tourism would also consider changing jobs based on their employers climate action.

Overall, 59% of employees say it is important or very important that their employer has a strategy for tackling climate change. Amongst Gen Z, this number rises to a staggering 71%.

Employees questioned feel differently across different industries with 70% of employees in the public sector believing it’s important that their employer has a strategy for tackling climate change. The public sector ranked highest across the nine industries looked at, with professional services and construction tying for second and third at 65%.

When questioned about how they would rate their own employer in terms of sustainability, only 13% of employees said very good while a further 24% said good. Unfortunately, that does leave a whopping 65% of employees who either don’t believe their employer is doing enough or are sitting on the fence on the topic.

Interestingly, 45% of all employees think that changing their businesses to be better for the environment would also improve business performance. Add this to the 38% who think it would make little business performance difference and only 17% think that it would have a negative impact on business performance for their business to adopt a more climate-friendly approach.

Pawprint is an eco tech business focussed on making it easier for everyone to understand, measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Alongside the free consumer app Pawprint works with many businesses and organisations in the fight against climate change. Pawprint for Business enables businesses to inspire and support their workforce to fight climate change and amplifies their positive impact.

Christian Arno, founder and CEO, Pawprint, said: “There is a growing desire amongst employees, of all ages and across all industries to fight climate change. This survey highlights the growing need for workplaces to demonstrate their commitment to this too, especially if they are to attract and retain future generations of talent.”