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Employee Engagement

Empowering Employees to Drive Sustainability

Imagine a company where employees feel empowered to drive sustainability efforts and are actively engaged in the company's mission to reduce its environmental impact.

Urban Origins

Mar 11, 2023

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6 min read

Employee Engagement

How to Maximise Employee Engagement: The Key to a Productive and Successful Workplace

In this article, we'll go over some of the best strategies and best practices for boosting employee engagement in your organization.

Urban Origins

Mar 2, 2023

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6 min read

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement in the post-pandemic workplace: Understanding the current landscape

With the rise of remote work and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, employee engagement in the modern workplace looks quite different than it did even just a few years ago.‍

Urban Origins

Feb 27, 2023

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7 min read

Employee Engagement

5 unique sustainability experiences for your team in 2023 - Corporate Workshops, Team Bonding and more!

We list 5 of the most requested and unique sustainability experiences that you can engage for your team in 2023.

Urban Origins

Jan 26, 2023

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5 min read

Employee Engagement

Your office pantry is getting a sustainable makeover

Companies are searching for healthier, more nutritious and sustainably-sourced snacks to fill the pantry. Will they succeed in giving the pantry a sustainable makeover?

Urban Origins

Jan 11, 2023

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3 min read

See what's possible.

Featured Project

JLL organises used textiles collection drive at One George Street

JLL selected a used textile collection drive as an initiative to encourage sustainable habits among their tenants. This project was piloted at their One George Street building, with over 500kg of textiles collected in a month.

Urban Origins

Dec 17, 2022

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5 min read

Featured Project

Oatly's team building fun day out!

Oatly Singapore were looking to organise a team building day that focused on sustainability. Instead of attending seminars and workshops in the office, the team engaged in experiential learning about plastic waste, food waste and eco-enzymes. Some of their own empty oat drink cartons were also upcycled in the process.

Urban Origins

Nov 30, 2022

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5 min read

Featured Project

Great Eastern Earth Week 2022

Great Eastern Life Singapore wanted to engage their employees with sustainability activities during Earth Day 2022. We curated a week of sustainability pop-ups, quizzes and collection drives across their offices, and upcycling workshops where participants upcycled used milk cartons into lamps.

Urban Origins

Apr 30, 2022

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5 min read

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Community Highlight

Community Spotlight: The Young Maker

The Young Maker seeks to build a positive and fun learning culture that engages and nurtures students, while instilling in them a passion to learn and excel. They've recently worked with Archisen on an educational workshop in urban farming.

Urban Origins

Apr 8, 2022

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3 min read

Community Highlight

Partner Spotlight: Yilina Leong of Fossa Chocolate

Yilina is the co-founder of Fossa Chocolate, Singapore's first and award winning bean-to-bar craft chocolate maker.

Urban Origins

Mar 10, 2022

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3 min read

Community Highlight

Partner Spotlight: Florence Leong of KosmodeHealth

Florence is the co-founder of KosmodeHealth, a foodtech startup using plant extraction technology to enhance human nutrition. They have also created W0W® noodles – a starchless protein fibre noodle specially formulated to meet the nutritional needs of the ageing and diabetic population.

Urban Origins

Mar 8, 2022

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4 min read

Community Highlight

Brand Spotlight: The Better Milk

"The company has a couple of values so in addition to being plant-based, we are also very conscious about the environment. We advocate zero-waste packaging. Everything that we have comes in glass jars which allows for reusability."

Urban Origins

Dec 14, 2021

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6 min read