Ways Employees Can Get Involved In The Sharing Economy

The climate crisis has become a climate emergency. But what does this mean for your business?

In short, it means there couldn’t be a better time to think of ways to encourage your staff to live more sustainably – both in and outside the workplace. Educating your organization about the sharing economy and its benefits is one way.

But first, what is the sharing economy?

It’s using technology in the form of an app or an online platform – to connect with other people (rather than businesses) to borrow, rent or swap instead of buying. In other words, it’s anything that could be described as ‘the Airbnb of’ like listing clothes on a website for others to borrow or renting a car from a neighbor via an app.

Trends of Sharing Economy

It’s certainly catching on – the total value of the global sharing economy is predicted to increase to around 335 billion US dollars by 2025, from only 15 billion US dollars in 2014*. That’s a significant increase, and it shows that this peer-to-peer, or ‘person to person’ way of doing things is an exciting new trend that your employees will be inspired to hear about. After all, it’s…