Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR is central to Virtuos’ core values of excellence, trust, and positivity. We’re dedicated to enhancing standards for clients and employees, lessening our environmental impact, and enhancing local communities.
Explore our CSR approach and achievements below, and review our policies here.
Environment
Our commitment
Contributing to global carbon neutrality
The environmental impact of video game development, from mining materials for hardware to energy consumption for software processing, is significant. To ensure sustainable growth, we are committed to achieving carbon neutrality in our operations. We focus on measuring our global environmental impact and monitoring progress against our targets. Between 2021 and 2023, we successfully achieved carbon neutrality annually by reducing energy consumption, adopting renewable energy, and offsetting emissions.
Minimizing our impact on the environment
We are dedicated to environmental sustainability by fostering a culture of environmental responsibility. Through initiatives such as energy-saving challenges, tree planting, beach clean-ups, and green picnic days, we aim to bring awareness on our environmental impact and work together on making a positive difference.
Furthermore, our Green IT Classroom Program, established with NetSpring in 2019, refurbishes and donates computers to underprivileged youth, reducing electronic waste. Currently operational in China and Vietnam, this program underscores our commitment to minimizing environmental impact.
Our 2025 Target
Achieve carbon neutrality
Annually
Adopt 100%
renewable energy sources
Our Achievements
>97% Renewable
Energy
in 2020-2023 through purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
12+ Tonnes
electronic equipment processed and eco-dismantled since 2012
Carbon Neutral
across 11 studios representing 96% of employees in 2021-2023
Energy management
We actively look for opportunities to reduce electricity consumption such as switching to LEDs and ensuring that computers and lights are turned off during non-working hours. To better understand our electricity consumption by type of usage, we started implementing power plugs and tags in some studios in 2021. In 2022, Virtuos Shanghai launched a pilot programme to trial a solution that automatically switches off computers after work hours, then tracked and measured the reduction in electricity consumption. Since then, the solution has been implemented in other studios such as Virtuos Chengdu, Sparx*, and Glass Egg.
To monitor energy performance per studio, we are also measuring the electricity consumption and intensity per employee, including interns, trainees, and external vendors. This is tracked across our largest studios in eight cities. While there was an increase of electricity consumption due to a larger headcount, we managed to reduce electricity intensity by 10% from 1.75 MWh per employee in 2021 to 1.57 MWh per employee in 2022.
Carbon management
We consider carbon neutrality as an imperative CSR objective. In 2023, we achieved carbon neutrality representing 96% of employees across our studios. We embark on initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and purchased Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets to neutralize our residual GHG emissions.
We are working towards our goal of achieving 100% renewable energy across our studios. In 2023, we have achieved 97% renewable energy by matching our electricity consumption with RECs. To compensate from fully verified projects: National Bio Energy Tongliao Biomass Power Plant in China, and Grouped projects for Mekong River Delta Water Purifier in Vietnam. These credits have since been retired, saving 4,293 tons of CO2 emissions from being released into the atmosphere.
Green office
In 2023, Virtuos Singapore obtained the highest tier of Elite in the Eco Office Assessment organised by the Singapore Environmental Council. Following this, an internal eco office assessment was deployed across other studios to identify good practices and opportunities for improvement. Studios continuously embark on various environmental office initiatives and cultivate employee awareness, such as:
- Communicating regularly on environmental targets, the Group Environmental Policy and Procurement Policy through the intranet and studio meetings
- Using eco-friendly appliances such as LED lights and ENERGY star certified appliances whenever possible
- Providing reusable mugs and cutlery to encourage staff to eliminate the use of single-use plastics
- Establishing recycling infrastructures to facilitate better waste management and ensure that the different waste streams are properly sorted. Through this, we aim to inculcate recycling habits amongst in our employees
Carbon Inventory Verification Statement
Key Activities
