Letter To Shareholders - Mitac

consumption. To comply with the REACH regulations set forth by the European Union, the
company had made the mandatory product declaration on REACH SVHC. For consistency
in supply chain management, the component suppliers' ability to declare REACH SVHC had
also become a prerequisite.
5.4.6 Countermeasures to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
Due to the worsening issue of global warming, since Aug 2007, MiTAC has initiated the
GHG checking operation in order to respond to the trend of CO2 emission and to reduce
GHG in the future. The scope contains MiTAC’s production site in China. With the
assistance of SGS, Taiwan, the company performs the courses of checking CO2 gas
emission and training program for internal inspectors. According to ISO14064-1, we
started the systematic setup and listed all items to check for CO2 emission; we also built
interior documentation and examination procedures as a reference of measuring the effects
afterwards. In the meantime, we actively reduce GHG, introduce energy saving plans, i.e.
introducing regeneration energies—solar energy, recyclables, electricity saving—lighting
and air conditioning management in summers, in order to reduce CO2 emission to our
atmosphere.
As per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, MiTAC performs CO2 emission investigation and
data collection. The company checks the CO2 emission amount annually for the previous
year.
Here are the data of CO2 emission amount in 2009:
• Direct CO2 emission (scope 1): total annual CO2 emission amount is 3,373 tons, about
7% of our total CO2 emission.
• Indirect CO2 emission (scope 2): total annual CO2 emission amount is 43,248 tons, about
93% of the total CO2 emission, which was mainly from externally bought electricity &
steam gas.
MiTAC is concerned about the global climate change; we are dedicated to protecting
the Earth’s resources and fulfilling our duty as an enterprise citizen. We will continuously
push for the reduction of CO2 emission to reduce operation costs and work toward the
directions of efficient energy, power saving and environment protection. We will work on
the goal of creating a low-CO2 economic society.
5.5. Labor/Management Relations
The company is an information technology company, and our staff is suitably composed.
Our philosophy is to create a humane management. The company actively created various
communication channels for our employees and we respect our employees’ opinions. Hence,
all employees are encouraged to actively participate in employer and employee relationship
affairs..
5.5.1 Communication and incentives
The company greatly values our employees’ opinions, hence we have staff designated
in employees’ relationships. We also have a mailbox to hear our employees’ voices. We
survey on peers’ satisfaction and on a-360-degree feedback on all supervisors every six
months; at the end of each year, we perform a survey on employees’ satisfaction in the hope
that employee needs are being met.
The company has spared no effort to establish internal communication channels. At
present, employees commonly use our e-mail system, which reduces paper and reports
consumption and we believe that these increases the communication efficiency. At the same
time, the company has set up an internal “speak-out mailbox” where employees can directly
express their opinions. In addition, the company invested over NT$4 million to set up a
videoconferencing system, also called Video Conference Room, VCR to link all offices in
Hsinchu, Linkou, and Taipei so we can save the travel time. After we started to use VCR,
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