Tag: employee engagement

• Helping Employees to Make Sustainable Choices In celebration of Earth Month, we are highlighting employees who are champions of sustainability and help make every day Earth Day at Intel. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility that is made possible by harnessing the power of people and technology. At Intel, Earth Day Every Day is part of our DNA. We empower our employees...
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• Look Inside… :) Gopi Krishnan is a Senior process Engineer at Intel. In this role he is part of the team that develops the assembly process technology for Intel’s next generation products. His other interest lies in understanding and connecting Intel employee’s diverse professional and personal backgrounds, towards developing and enabling grass roots initiatives/solutions to solve social and environmental sustainability problems. To this,...
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• So What Does Girls’ Education Have to Do with Musical Pumpkins? Yesterday was not your normal day at the office.  I learned how to make a musical instrument out of a pumpkin. To kick off Intel’s celebrations of the UN’s  International Day of the Girl, we hosted a great group of middle school girls from the YMCA’s TechGYRLS program at our headquarters in Santa Clara. The girls spent the day working...
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• Well Folks, That’s a Wrap… Introducing Intel’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report After months of planning, writing, data checking (and rechecking, and rechecking…), this morning we released our latest Corporate Responsibility Report at Intel’s Annual Stockholder Meeting.  For those of you familiar with the process, putting together the report is a labor of love for so many people across a company (and let’s be real, sometimes not so much love...) But when...
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• How are you Celebrating World Water Day? We drink it. We swim in it. We’re made of it. Today is World Water Day, an annual day to focus on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. At large companies – including Intel – water conservation is essential. In fact, since 1998, Intel’s efforts have saved more than 40 billion gallons of...
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• Creating and Measuring Shared Value: What’s so different about it? At the annual Net Impact Conference held recently, we had the opportunity to participate in a shared value panel discussion centered on understanding how companies are deploying the concept of shared value, including new methodology on measuring shared value, developed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and FSG.  A room filled with inspiring MBA students, eager to take on...
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• Why Community Involvement Really Matters Now   As a former New Yorker and current Arizona resident with most of my family and friends spread along the east coast, I’ve spent much of the last two weeks watching the terrible devastation from Sandy, and the subsequent snowstorm, following my friend’s Facebook posts and tweets about the status of their power, tree limbs, wet basements and impossible commutes....
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• Latinas Design Their Futures in STEM In September, about 200 high-school Latinas from around the Valley of the Sun descended on the campus of Chandler-Gilbert Community College to get a taste of STEM – science, technology, engineering and math. This year's second Hermanas Conference – for the first time aimed at middle-school Latinas – took place yesterday at the same college campus, offering a big head-start to...
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• From Intel, to Afghanistan, Back to Intel Rob Polston understands the meaning of ‘adaptable’ better than most. He started working in finance for Intel in 2004. As part of his service in the U.S. Army National Guard, he was called to active duty in 2011. Polston spent several months in southern Afghanistan, where he experienced the kind of things most of us only hear about in the...
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• Bite-sized CSR: Adding 200,00 new “workers” to our Folsom site! 200,000 worker bees that is! On a sunny Friday in May 2012, five bee boxes at our Intel Folsom site. Emma and Raphael Hitzke, two Intel employees, got interested in the fate of honeybees a few years back when they were working on a documentary film called “Vive La Food!” about two French Chefs in Sacramento. As part of the research,...
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