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Building a Purposeful and Sustainable Workplace through HR Strategies

HR Digest

The triple bottom line (TBL) is a framework that evaluates a business’s performance based on three factors: social, environmental, and financial. The TBL approach recognizes that businesses have a responsibility to contribute to social and environmental sustainability , not just financial success.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

While there have been successes, our climate, water resources, oceans, forests, soils and biodiversity are all increasingly threatened. To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL).

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