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AMD Wins Smart Commute’s “Employer of the Year Award” for York Region

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SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/27/14 – The Mark­ham, Onta­rio cam­pus of AMD (NYSE: AMD) has been pre­sen­ted the 2014 Smart Com­mu­te “Employ­er of the Year” award for York Regi­on. The annu­al awards aim to reco­gni­ze employ­ers lea­ding the way on sus­tainable com­mu­ting prac­ti­ces.1

AMD’s “Go Green” Com­muter Pro­gram began in 2007, the same year as Metrolinx’s Smart Com­mu­te Pro­gram began hel­ping employ­ers and com­mut­ers explo­re smart tra­vel opti­ons such as wal­king, cycling, tran­sit, car­poo­ling and tele­wor­king. Sin­ce then the two orga­niza­ti­ons have col­la­bo­ra­ted to increase adop­ti­on of sus­tainable com­mu­ting at AMD. To gau­ge pro­gress, an employee sur­vey was con­duc­ted in April 2014 and show­ed appro­xi­m­ate­ly 4 out of 10 employees use clean trans­por­ta­ti­on opti­ons, a 12 per­cent increase from 2009.2 AMD employees in Mark­ham have log­ged 1.75 mil­li­on kilo­me­ters of avo­ided dri­ving, amoun­ting to 39,000 kg of redu­ced car­bon dioxi­de emis­si­ons sin­ce 2007.3

“AMD is hono­red to win this award,” sta­ted Matt Skyn­ner, AMD cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, AMD Cana­da. “We belie­ve it is the respon­si­bi­li­ty of employ­ers to pro­vi­de and sup­port pro­grams that miti­ga­te con­ges­ti­on and pol­lu­ti­on from our com­mu­ting work­force. In addi­ti­on to envi­ron­men­tal bene­fits, the pro­grams repre­sent an oppor­tu­ni­ty to help our employees redu­ce trans­por­ta­ti­on incon­ve­ni­en­ces and cos­ts, as well as increase well­be­ing in the cases of biking or wal­king to work, for exam­p­le. We are proud to have grown AMD’s ‘Go Green’ Com­muter Pro­gram over the years and value the part­ner­ship with Smart Commute.”

Various incen­ti­ves are offe­red to AMD employees who choo­se “Go Green” com­mu­te opti­ons inclu­ding reser­ved par­king and ride-matching for car­poo­lers, store dis­counts to Bike Depot for cyclists, and elec­tric vehic­le (EV) char­ging for EV owners. Addi­tio­nal incen­ti­ves and pro­mo­ti­ons are pro­vi­ded by Smart Com­mu­te Mark­ham, Rich­mond Hill, such as an “Emer­gen­cy Ride Home Pro­gram” for par­ti­ci­pa­ting employees who need a qua­li­fy­ing taxi ride, and onsite lunch-and-lear­ns cove­ring spe­cial topics like eco-effi­ci­ent driving.

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1 Smart Com­mu­te Web­site: http://www.smartcommute.ca/about-us/what-is-smart-commute/
2 Smart Com­mu­te Markham/Richmond Hill Com­muter Sur­vey con­duc­ted with AMD in April 2014
3 AMD’s com­muter website

Source: Advan­ced Micro Devices