Dailycsr.com – 29 December 2018 – On December 13, 2018, in an announcement, Bloomberg revealed that it is going to expand its “New Voices initiative to Sydney, Mumbai, Dubai and San Francisco in 2019”. The decision follows the success of the said initiative seen in “similar launches this year in New York, London, Toronto, and Hong Kong”.
 
Bloomberg funds the said programme which offers “one-on-one media training for top women executives in finance and business”. Moreover, the initiative is supported by the “local trainers from Burson Cohn & Wolfe” as it aims to make the “women TV-ready for interviews on Bloomberg TV and other outside outlets”.
 
Laura Zelenko is the “Senior Executive Editor for Diversity, Talent, Standards and Training” at Bloomberg, spearheaded the “New Voices initiative” and in the “Conference Board’s West Coast Diversity & Inclusion Conference” that was held recently in San Francisco, she talked about the “limiting bias in the newsroom”, whereby she said:
“Diversity both internally and externally, from who reports, writes and edits the stories to the outside sources we choose to interview and bring on Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio, is imperative to staying competitive today, for making sure we’re finding the right, most important stories to tell, and for ensuring what we report and write is always accurate, fair and balanced”.
 
Below, the progresses of Bloomberg News made in strengthening the women across the platforms is listed in short, as mentioned by the Bloomberg:

 
Additionally, Zelenko added:
“Our work is far from finished. What we can’t do is lose momentum or weaken the urgency. From what we’ve learned, there are some best practices that can be replicated industry to industry. On the one hand, we need to create processes that can be measured, with tracking tools and metrics to review. On the other, these efforts must be carried out simultaneously with cultural change to truly ensure durable impact.”
 
 
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Dailycsr.com – 22 March 2018 – On February 28, 2018, the General Motors made an announcement to reveal its plans of expansion of “industry-leading landfill-free program”. The said programme enables the manufacturing units of the company situated in “Canada, Mexico and South America” to reuse, recycle or even convert its daily operational waste into energy.
 
Keeping itself above “any other automaker”, GM has added 27 new “certified facilities”, whereby having a total of “142 manufacturing and non-manufacturing landfill-free facilities” worldwide.
 
In the words of the Vice President at Sustainable Workplaces:
“We aspire to be a zero-waste company with all manufacturing plants achieving landfill-free status. That zero mindset is driven by our local teams and their efforts to find innovative and sustainable solutions that improve the communities where we live and work.”
 
The “manufacturing operations” of GM that take place Canada are 100% landfills free waste, while they also obtain resources through the “value chain” and reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases. Significant impacts are being created through small and simple solutions; for example the “Oshawa Assembly Plant” as well as the “Canadian Technical Center” have introduced “new waste, compost and recycling container systems” in their kitchens as well as “high-traffic areas” which in turn are “improving recycling efficiencies”.
 
Moreover, “onsite leadership” and participations of the employee in “mixed container recycling” has brought in an improvement of 35% in the process from the year of 2016. The manager of “Global Waste Reduction” at General Motors, said:
“We don’t see things as they are, but what they could be. To us, waste is simply a resource out of place.”
 
Furthermore, General Motors informs:
“From repurposing old concrete for use in new walkways at the company’s sites to cleaning instead of disposing of oil-soaked cloths used in the paint processes, the teams in South America find creative and simple solutions to reduce waste. For instance, General Motor’s São Caetano do Sul plant in Brazil lines waste cans throughout the facility with plastic bags originally used by a local supplier for parts shipment. The project avoids sending nearly 8,000 plastic bags to landfill each year”. 
 
The company gives important to the efforts of global “waste management” whereby “delivering efficiencies, generating revenue and helping with cost savings”. While, the General Motors added:
“The 79 landfill-free manufacturing operations on average reuse, recycle or compost approximately 96 percent of their waste from daily operations and convert 4 percent to energy”.
 
 
 
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Dailycsr.com – 30 April 2017 – In an announcement, General Motors revealed that it is going to create over “1,100 new jobs” besides investing “$14 million” for a “new research” and a San Francisco based Cruise Automation’s “development facility”. In an attempt to transform “personal mobility” and to take forward the technology of self-driving cars, Cruise Automation will “expand” the development with the help of the investment fund.
 
In the words of the C.E.O and the Chairman at General Motors, Mary Barra:
“Expanding our team at Cruise Automation and linking them with our global engineering talent is another important step in our work to redefine the future of personal mobility. Self-driving technology holds enormous benefits to society in the form of increased safety and access to transportation. Running our autonomous vehicle program as a start-up is giving us the speed we need to continue to stay at the forefront of development of these technologies and the market applications.”
 
At present, together with GM’s engineers, Cruise Automation conducting tests on over fifty Chevrolet Bolt EVs with self-driving technology on public roads in San Francisco; Scottsdale, Arizona; and metro Detroit”.
 
Expressing the excitement, Cruise Automation’s C.E.O, Kyle Vogt, stated:
“We are excited to significantly expand our footprint in California and continue on our rapid growth trajectory. As autonomous car technology matures, our company's talent needs will continue to increase. Accessing the world-class talent pool that the San Francisco Bay Area offers is one of the many reasons we plan to grow our presence in the state.”
 
 
While, the Director of the “California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development”, Panorea Avdis, added:
“GM’s investment is further proof that California is leading the nation in the design, engineering and deployment of autonomous vehicles. Today, GM joins hundreds of other companies that have received a California Compete Tax Credit award in return for adding good-paying jobs in the state, and we look forward to working with them on their continued expansion in California.”
 
 
 
 
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