Aussie Broadband is thrilled to announce that it has taken its first step to end up licensed as a B Corporation.

B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies that meet validated requirements of social and environmental overall performance, transparency, and accountability.

Managing Director Phillip Britt stated that turning into B Corp licensed could assist Aussie to in addition its paintings on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).

“Aussie Broadband has constantly been an agency that values humans and cause as a lot as profit. We trust this certification is a really perfect match with our very own values,” Phil stated.

“Becoming licensed as a B Corporation will assist us as we circulate into a brand new section of the corporation and maintain to alternate the telco game. It will permit us to benchmark ourselves and enhance our ESG practices even extra,” stated Phil.

Aussie Broadband’s Chair, Adrian Fitzpatrick, stated the B Corp Certification is the subsequent step withinside the corporation’s ESG objectives.

“Adopting an ESG reporting framework like that of B Corp sits in keeping with Aussie Broadband’s dedication to network effect, our humans and the surroundings. By assessing our effect, we are able to make sure that we are able to make a actual distinction as a corporation,” stated Adrian.

The B Corp evaluation measures a corporation’s overall performance throughout 5 regions: governance, workers, network, surroundings and customers. To obtain B Corp Certification, groups ought to have as a minimum eighty factors while filing the evaluation. 

“We’re absolutely thrilled with our indicative consequences so far – it seems we’re scoring nicely above common in every of the effect regions,” stated Phil.

“It’s now no longer some thing which you obtain overnight – it entails a number of difficult paintings, hard questions and ongoing improvement. But maximum importantly, it offers us an goal view approximately what we’re doing nicely and regions that we want to enhance in terms of our social and environmental effect.”

“B Corp holds groups answerable for the guarantees they make, and every of the 5 regions of evaluation are closely monitored and measured. So, we trust that being a registered B Corp demonstrates that our dedication is extra than simply words.” Phil stated.