Building a Sustainable Future
Insight is committed to helping our clients, partners, teammates and community protect the environment. We seek opportunities to reduce energy consumption, improve energy efficiency and reduce waste. As a Solutions Integrator, we help organizations reduce negative environmental impacts and sustain more ecological responsible practices:
Cloud services to reduce infrastructure and carbon footprint
Modern data center platforms that improve energy efficiency and resource stewardship
Smart city infrastructure to optimize water, fuel and power consumption
Remote workplaces and virtual events that reduce commutes and create carbon savings
Responsible asset disposition, including reuse and recycling, to minimize e-waste
To help clients become more sustainable, we provide several impactful solutions and services:
Modern infrastructure. We recommend, deliver and support energy-efficient data infrastructure. This helps clients reduce environmental impact by decreasing their data center footprint, moving energy-consuming apps from on-premises to the cloud, and utilizing hybrid cloud services that reduce resource consumption and improve utilization.
Modern work. We recommend and support modern, energy-efficient workplace solutions that help companies reduce carbon emissions by keeping vehicles off the road and making remote meetings more effective.
Insight helped Walthamstow School for Girls to address the challenges of a device refresh program that aligned with its sustainability objectives. The school faced a major challenge with support due to end in 2025 for its 500+ Windows 10-enabled devices, and a major challenge was power consumption. Insight provided a solution that enabled the school to upgrade to Desktop Mini devices that draw 66% less power and use less desk space. This led to two-thirds lower costs, opportunities for improved instruction, technology rewards and sustainable recycling through participation in the Brighter Futures trade-in program. Our Solutions Integrator knowledge guided the different form factor solutions that helped the school reduce its power consumption and electricity costs.
Read the full case study to find out how Walthamstow School for Girls is leading the way in carbon-friendly learning.
We leverage data and AI for innovations in smart technology and edge computing to help clients protect resources and optimize energy consumption. We also work on smart city initiatives to help communities provide more cost-effective utilities.
Device disposal. Electronic waste is a critical concern. As a zero-landfill recycler, Insight partners with leading asset disposition professionals to help clients reduce electronic waste — refurbishing and recycling end-of-life devices and IT components to minimize environmental impact.
As a Solutions Integrator, we’re in a unique position to recycle and reuse hardware. We focus our programs to ensure clients and the community get the most out of technology and that it’s disposed of responsibly. Our asset disposition program helps companies repurpose old equipment safely through data erasure and asset remarketing or disposal. Insight, in partnership with Dell Technologies, works with suppliers to identify energy efficiency improvements and create water-risk mitigation plans. A circular design approach helps us return materials to their production cycles for use in new products. Our services include a review of IT assets to determine whether to remarket, recycle or redeploy. Each asset receives a physical and technical audit and tracking in a custom disposition web portal. Our asset disposition services ensure:
EPA- and RCRA-compliant e-waste disposal
Maximized return on remarketable assets
Simplified logistics and transportation
Auditable chain of custody for disposed assets
IN 2023, WE HELPED CLIENTS WITH
of electronic waste saved
old hardware assets resold or recycled in US
Insight’s extensive network of depot centers offers nationwide coverage for both asset forward and reverse logistics. Our comprehensive repair and replacement process ensures that our clients’ IT technology assets are handled with care and expertise, providing them with the peace of mind that their assets are in good hands. Insight’s Sustainability Service allows clients to extend the useful life of assets, re-use existing assets from exited employees, and reduce the need for on-premises device and repair storage.
Our sustainability centers — located in Chandler, Arizona; Hanover Park, Illinois; Lewis Center, Ohio; Montreal and Calgary in Canada; Raunheim, Germany; and, coming in 2024, Fort Worth, Texas — help clients who use the Insight Device as a Service (DaaS) program to save money and reduce waste. They provide a sustainable approach to managing devices by offering repair and refurbishment services for broken or outdated devices, regardless of the manufacturer or if a device is out of warranty. This means clients don’t have to replace devices as often, saving costs and prolonging hardware life in the long run. Additionally, Insight’s DaaS program covers a client’s entire device fleet, regardless of brand. This makes for a more sustainable and cost-effective solution compared to OEM competitors who only cover their own devices and require additional warranty costs.
2023 saw the explosion of generative AI. At Insight, we believe generative AI can help benefit sustainability. Research by Google suggests AI could reduce emissions up to 10% by 2030. But data can be costly — both financially and environmentally.
As a Solutions Integrator, we help clients put best practices for generative AI in place from a sustainability standpoint by helping organizations curate and consolidate data, reducing their overall data footprint. The goal is to avoid any and all extraneous costs from data, thereby reducing the amount of processing power.
Read our eBook, “Beyond Hypotheticals: Understanding the Real Possibilities of Generative AI,” for a comprehensive look at responsibly developing a generative AI strategy.
Fuchsia Forest: Since July 2020, Insight has partnered with Tree Nation in Europe, starting a "Fuchsia Forest" to plant trees in honor of teammate accomplishments. To date, we have planted nearly 12,000 trees on behalf of our monthly values award winners, new starters and teammates celebrating work anniversaries.
In 2023, Insight established a partner program to deliver sustainable solutions for our clients. This initiative unites the best capabilities from our partners in extending hardware lifecycles, along with innovation in optimizing the use of resources and services designed to reduce on-premises IT infrastructure and carbon footprints. Insight partners with some of the world’s most sustainable and responsible companies — industry leaders recognized by third parties for their commitment to ecological, social and ethical responsibility, including: Apple, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HP, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NVIDIA and VMware.
Insight is committed to reducing our own impact on the environment. We strive to improve our environmental impact over time and to initiate projects and activities that will further reduce our environmental footprint. Whether we are making sustainable choices every day, such as the materials we use, to envisioning new workplaces with sustainability in mind, we strive to protect our environment in meaningful ways.
Evaluation of Carbon Emission LevelsAs part of our commitment to reducing our overall impact on the environment, we have completed a companywide Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions evaluation to determine a baseline for further reducing already low GHG emission levels. Our levels have reduced each year: In 2022, our Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions were under 15,000 metric tons. For 2023, the company’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions totaled approximately 13,500 metric tons.
Insight Way, Insight’s corporate headquarters, opened in May 2022 in Chandler, Arizona. It showcases our vision for the modern workplace and underscores our commitment to environmental responsibility through the use of intelligent solutions for energy-efficiency and sustainability. In 2023, we received LEED Gold accreditation for our headquarters. In addition, this headquarters features:
Solar panel installation on covered parking that provides 80% of electricity for the facility during peak times, and up to 100% during non-peak hours
100% LED lighting with occupancy sensors, providing reduced electrical usage and longer useful life to create less waste
Facility managed by a building automation system that runs lighting, HVAC and window shades
Sustainable technology like automated check-in, smart air-quality controls and lighting implemented throughout the site
Eight electric-vehicle charging stations on-site with expansion capabilities
An abundance of natural sunlight coupled with 1,000 trees and green plants inside to improve air quality, reduce fatigue and increase productivity
Reclaimed water for irrigation, reducing the use of potable drinking water to conserve fresh water resources
Take a tour with CFO Glynis Bryan of our own modern workplace, Insight Way, which is our global corporate headquarters in Chandler, Arizona.
Footprint ReductionInsight is committed to doing more with less. We regularly assess our footprint and have strategically consolidated or closed offices as we have implemented a hybrid workplace. In 2023, we closed or consolidated eight offices totaling 245,000 square feet. Since 2020, we have closed or consolidated 31 offices, reducing our footprint by about 500,000 square feet.
IT OptimizationInsight’s internal IT solutions often are the starting point for the transformative solutions we bring to our clients. Our IT automation team accelerates internal business processes by implementing intelligent digital solutions that drive productivity, enhance process capability and scalability, and enable organizational shifts.
Here are a few ways that automation improvements helped us work more meaningfully in 2023:
13,000 teammate work hours were saved by reducing repetitive, manual work.
Manual order entry was eliminated for 109,000 sales transactions, allowing our account executives to focus more time on customer relationship management rather than data entry.
Automation saved our accounting team more than 800 hours of research in identifying accounts payable variances.
State-of-the-Art Client Fulfillment Center
In 2023, we announced a new 249,500-square-foot client fulfillment center in Fort Worth, Texas, expected to be fully operational by October 2024. This state-of-the-art facility is equipped with next-gen logistics capabilities, including:
A goods-to-person Autonomous Mobile Robotics system powered by Geek+ that will increase inventory and picking accuracy. It also improves safety, reducing foot traffic by 80%.
Very Narrow Aisle Racking using guided-wire technology to optimize pallet storage while reducing floor space. The intelligent system also can automatically configure emergency walking corridors to provide teammates safe exit in the event of an emergency.
An intelligent conveyor with built-in quality assurance measures.
Cloud-based building security, which includes video cameras and environmental sensors with cloud-based machine vision and AI.
With sustainability in mind, we will do significantly more work in a much smaller footprint by doing 10 times the velocity in half the space of our existing Hanover Park center. Because robots will complete most warehouse operations, we have reduced 27 air-conditioner units from the Fort Worth facility, creating a significant cost savings on energy consumption.
The new center also includes dedicated space for building and scaling data centers powered by the latest energy-efficient technology. Our clients and partners can expect a state-of-the-art integration configuration center, innovative safety and security that leverages AI-powered robotics to improve throughput and reduce damage, and improved speed to ship and speed to delivery.
