Sustainability Report
As one of Sweden’s most visited digital platforms and a hub for the country’s housing businesses, Hemnet plays an important role in the Swedish housing market. With our position comes great responsibility and we are actively working to build a company with a positive impact on the market in which we operate, as well as on society at large.
Our sustainability efforts during 2022 Hemnet is strongly committed to ensuring that its operations contribute to sustainable economic, environmental and social development. We are determined to constantly improve our business and make it more sustainable, and have made several important ESG and sustainability-related improvements during the year: • Implemented a sustainability reporting software to ensure we have all ESG-related data in one place for more robust and future-proof reporting. • Added a Sustainability policy , adopted by the Board, to our policies for more transparent governance and direction in our sustainability efforts. • Defined clearer goals within our various sustainability focus areas, available in this report. • Joined the Science Based Target initiative and committed to the
initiative’s targets for small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce emissions with 42% by 2030. • Signed the lease for a new office that meets high environmental standards within energy and waste management. • Added the role of and hired a Chief People and Culture Officer to our management team to further invest in our high ambition to become one of Sweden’s best workplaces. • Continued our work with diversity and inclusion by educating our leaders in unconscious bias. • Invited all employees to a full day about our values, culture, diversity, inclusion and belonging to ensure a common understanding of, engagement in and dialogue about the company’s beliefs and frameworks within these important areas. • I mplemented an e-learning platform to improve how we educate our employees on our most important policies and procedures.
Approach to reporting standards
We are determined to yearly take new steps and develop our sustainability efforts to meet stakeholder expectations and to prepare the organisation for the upcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (the “CSRD”), which will come into force on 1 January 2026 for companies of Hemnet’s size. Until then, we will continue to follow up all of our sustainability focus areas with
performance indicators inspired by, but not fully meeting, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) requirements.
In our sustainability efforts, we also take guidance from the UN:s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where we, in particular, contribute to goals 5, 8, 9 and 13:
In our committed work to become one of Sweden’s best employers, diversity, inclusion and belonging is a key focus. We strive towards gender equality within all layers of our organisation and support the industry initiative Women in Tech to inspire more women to choose a career within tech.
As a digital and comprehensive marketplace, Hemnet enables
Hemnet is an independent and transparent marketplace.
We strive to limit our
emissions and we review how we can help our customers make more sustainable housing choices through our services and platforms.
faster and easier property transactions for all market participants. This creates a more efficient property market and contributes to sustainable economic growth. Through our civic engage- ment and by supporting Stockholm City Mission and Sweden for UNHCR, we help to improve living standards for people in vulnerable situations.
Through our platform, we provide a high-quality and reliable digital infrastructure for the Swedish property market giving equal access to all market participants.
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Sustainability report
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