{"id":125320,"date":"2026-03-09T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/releases\/releases-geral\/acronis-releases-2025-esg-report-highlighting-progress-in-sustainability-workforce-engagement-and-responsible-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:12:00","slug":"acronis-releases-2025-esg-report-highlighting-progress-in-sustainability-workforce-engagement-and-responsible-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/releases\/releases-geral\/acronis-releases-2025-esg-report-highlighting-progress-in-sustainability-workforce-engagement-and-responsible-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronis Releases 2025 ESG Report Highlighting Progress in Sustainability, Workforce Engagement, and Responsible Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, March  09, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=WeLUA_Pxcuohltz-7TEylb4xEpWqF8dBfzOMlgwwSX94UloUjm0dM6xkoYHxDZrcqnuSt8b3AtYS6bDwTLRrtw==\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Acronis<\/u><\/a>, a global leader in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=0tyuxiMm8fQU1LlSm-fyhkJz7-MrTOCONRZ-OmrYz9hXXRuVhk2ogHnFQR9D7MLGNpeqcEg6zRtHKjH1M-oYXXu1pHc4B-KWDlYWanyI237Jywq_CEDXhjOGfZMfd5qt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cyber protection,<\/a> today announced the release of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=_dT6JAtxFsXKmBkabs6o6drEAKyQP1nIoGUpf7CqJc3uOnl0IpyiRQdYebCnd7jItgE9PBfTRUQo93Fuc62dQ3BdKQGRlQD8pVl6_a0mRTiHyJz0py5hU4UXShzDICjCQAv5mV3JBepWz5bWKJdq4BOUc859AzMbmOitBuZXTYl7IntOrdXjp4SNGVxQVJqu\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report<\/a>, highlighting the companys ESG strategy, key initiatives, and measurable progress across global operations in 2025 amid rapid change in cyber protection and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=WIv3dB23COxVTKf9CSW-2a7ouYK6ZR85iKpd2m3aBlWvvuY4EwZzGKbHoaSJUG5d1UumL-dKlpXUa5eCqTSo_kEDivXOA-pQP7m-7srefYflPX24CqHwCaKrdkUlKNeNYX4FBmbr4l4ngMLvEYlFXNLoo6Aan1S2cPeWrWRzjMHn9uYcFKdiZ72UGrNEwMPJIHfByVcoYMV6VcBSq0j425iSV3KwA_bQpZbqJPoA-C0r9Tn8iJnl19KHiYr1O7mMF2oEKF9uuyB1QEvp5NwCfw==\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Compared to 2024<\/a>, Acronis achieved measurable progress across key ESG metrics in 2025. The latest report demonstrates how the company continues to strengthen the foundation of trust at the core of its business by protecting, managing, and automating IT environments; investing in its people; equipping partners through training and enablement and engaging them in community initiatives; increasing transparency around greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculations to support shared sustainability goals; supporting local communities; and further reducing its global operational footprint.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This ESG report reflects our commitment to building a resilient, ethical, and sustainable organization  one that protects not only data, but also people, communities, and the environment, said Alona Geckler, SVP of Business Operations and Chief of Staff at Acronis. Our 2025 ESG Report demonstrates how we embed responsible business practices into both our strategy and daily operations. By providing transparency into our performance, we create long-term value for our partners and give them confidence in our sustainable operations and business stability. We are committed to strengthening trust and contributing to a more secure digital future.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1067-ESG Report_2025_Schaffhausen\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/d879fbdd-d97d-487e-8632-1100b5624f36\/1067-esg-report-2025-schaffhausen.jpg\" width=\"480\" data-dpi=\"96\" data-caption=\"Acronis 2025 ESG Report showcases ongoing commitment to responsible business practices, sustainable growth, and protecting the digital world \" data-filename=\"1067-ESG Report_2025_Schaffhausen.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Responsible AI and Innovation<\/strong><br \/>AI plays an enabling role across Acronis ESG priorities. Acronis continues to advance AI across its products, operations, and development while maintaining a strong commitment to responsible use. The company recognizes that AI introduces both new opportunities and risks and is evolving its governance practices to address privacy, security, and potential misuse in line with its existing ethical and security standards, supported by a formal AI Use Policy that defines clear guardrails for responsible adoption, data protection, human oversight, and appropriate use cases across the organization.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">AI capabilities are being embedded into Acronis natively integrated platform to enhance endpoint security, backup and recovery, and endpoint management, improving efficiency and cyber resilience for customers and partners. Internally, AI tools are widely adopted to support productivity, with <strong>more than 80% of employees using AI tools weekly <\/strong>and expanded use across sales, support, legal, and operations. Within R&amp;D, AI-assisted development has scaled significantly, with <strong>more than 300 engineers using AI coding tools<\/strong> that have <strong>generated nearly 2 million lines of code <\/strong>to date and contributed to measurable productivity gains in development and testing workflows. Acronis continues to invest in AI-enabled innovation with a focus on secure deployment, transparency, governance oversight, and ongoing workforce upskilling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Environmental Performance<\/strong><br \/>In 2025, Acronis advanced its environmental strategy through greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, efficiency measures, reuse initiatives, and responsible infrastructure decisions, including:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Strengthened the consistency and reliability of GHG<\/strong> in collaboration with an external sustainability advisory partner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Reduced its total Scope 13 greenhouse GHG emissions by 40% compared to 2024<\/strong>. Scope 3 emissions, representing 98% of the companys total footprint, declined by 41% year-over-year, with the largest share linked to the use phase of sold products (Category 11), accounting for 82.1% of Scope 3 emissions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Held <strong>18 Environmental Days across 11 regions<\/strong>, collecting <strong>1,500 kg (3,300 lbs.) of waste<\/strong> and planting <strong>1,780 trees. <\/strong>Employee engagement remained an important part of environmental stewardship.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Strengthened the sustainability of its digital infrastructure by migrating more than <strong>100 petabytes<\/strong> of Frankfurt data center workloads to a facility certified to <strong>ISO 14001 and ISO 50001<\/strong>, prioritizing energy efficiency, hardware reuse, and certified recycling practices.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">To further support decarbonization across its operations, Acronis <strong>matched 70% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy attribute certificates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Social Impact and Workforce Engagement<\/strong><br \/>Acronis continued to invest in its people and communities in 2025:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Expanded its <strong>Voice of Employees<\/strong> program, implementing <strong>50% of submitted ideas<\/strong> to improve workplace culture and operations.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Strengthened employee engagement, with more than <strong>600 employees (33% of the workforce)<\/strong> contributing <strong>2,378 volunteer hours<\/strong> across <strong>129 community projects<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Launched <strong>LinkedIn Learning globally<\/strong>, achieving approximately <strong>70% adoption<\/strong>, and expanded mentorship programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">Through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=WeLUA_Pxcuohltz-7TEylWGbCqsm2bMNMxRQdUfsuZ5jy4x8sQZougyIu1oSz56ZfERGGSx2-skdcVDG1F9Ig_cd5S-Gec20I3yWdJo6YT8=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Acronis Cyber Foundation Program<\/strong><\/a>, the company scaled its community impact by delivering <strong>three school construction projects<\/strong> supporting <strong>1,289 children<\/strong>, <strong>eight IT skills programs<\/strong> reaching <strong>550+ learners<\/strong>, and <strong>40 cyber safety workshops<\/strong> engaging <strong>2,100 participants<\/strong>, supported by <strong>63 employees and 33 Acronis partners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Governance and Responsible Innovation<\/strong><br \/>In 2025, Acronis strengthened governance, oversight, and accountability:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Completed its <strong>first Double Materiality Assessment<\/strong>, identifying <strong>five material and five emerging ESG topics<\/strong> to guide strategy and reporting.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Appointed a <strong>Board Sustainability Champion<\/strong>, reinforcing Board-level oversight of ESG priorities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Launched <strong>Compliance Navigator<\/strong>, an interactive tool helping MSPs and customers translate regulatory requirementssuch as <strong>NIS2, DORA, and HIPAA<\/strong>into actionable compliance and security steps.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Advanced responsible AI governance through an <strong>AI Use Policy<\/strong>, employee training, and updated customer terms for AI-enabled features.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\">Enhanced responsible procurement practices through the rollout of a new <strong>procure-to-pay system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Enabling MSP Success Through Training and Co-Innovation<\/strong><br \/>Partner capability building remains strategically critical to Acronis MSP-first model. In 2025, Acronis Academy trained more than<strong> 4,000+<\/strong> partner employees <strong>per quarter across 162 countries and seven languages<\/strong>. Participants earned an average of <strong>three to four certifications<\/strong> each, resulting in a year-over-year doubling of total certifications.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Acronis also expanded partner co-innovation initiatives. The <strong>Partner Ambassadors Program now includes 40 MSP ambassadors from 20 countries<\/strong>, and the <strong>Partner Advisory Council has grown to more than 200 members<\/strong>. Together, these groups supported <strong>10+ industry events and webinars<\/strong> and participated in <strong>38 structured feedback sessions<\/strong> (10 focus groups and 28 PAC sessions), directly informing product experience enhancements and go-to-market priorities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">For more information, download the full Acronis 2025 ESG report here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=oQ1W0tsuE_-Eq_9rNL_p0iLkyf2q7LJuGH7ZlmTHbCJfUxxJYdYBID_fzaQNIqhS6O03dfLdh0m4SFliNYTv35lVIxIn7jkyBGmEtDQLdDmPrw0lS65b66GCYwQ5AwaWiHpeHKZ-c7topHU5DwDTICkjj4SUYSNLW0rxh5ezhdYTsm3Ru9wqCl9aF_oOWKVR\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/en\/sustainability-governance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>About Acronis:<\/strong> <br \/>Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=0tyuxiMm8fQU1LlSm-fyhqqLxEXDFacNksh3UoOrje9Zce7eG0bCbLjLSH-mwxLi0a77tpumgQsU9fwgKnPnBRdWGJ7fwnZEgGi8S6li-CVYNKCYTh-Gk8azSFpkQRyfsNdSYC6BrzzvLfO_FiQBgA==\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cybersecurity<\/a>, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 21,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=4vRqu9c4WP6UpzCUwFpM7lDKkpvoaep1FmqB9RoCOEO9kMo05mTqbGO3w2tEgsnrcw3w_ffOuorC6FYa18JEQbtWsNI4xYdWNUGqQFtc-zU=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.acronis.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Acronis Press Contact:<\/strong> <br \/>Julia Carfagno<br \/>Senior Global Communications Manager<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=p5IhBr8meR5C6s_4FeOtyNEhomtDkUSAf_fJTpkbOlbTvI3Ahx6jinRXxumIq49RZ_q2rLlHVd3iCb0m_5T4y7j3sLy3vDxelN5V7MWEMOqMQSY_CL9GJMX0CZ3gUCtO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Julia.Carfagno@acronis.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo accompanying this announcement is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=oQ1W0tsuE_-Eq_9rNL_p0qSCrhV4_M744HdXArCQoztJ-Ftn2wiCyoHogYRvaW5bx8SDvwqDiYLTd51mGnlSuDB26vcB1caaQgvYOe-fKaXeS06A47C_n7rn8V-8ZAu-AFrT36Z1PV1vjYw1LaGdNRTaeGRWnlRPM8DYNZuvGQ5_s-Nl4QQApWjNyWgByUiyfTC48nBN8pQ--czPUYLEv7Zm9Mlka9EHak1f0J2jnsKYdlfm6KFOh161MdOJKeAzdnglsWUDskSEJxfAbRZvhg==\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/NewsRoom\/AttachmentNg\/d879fbdd-d97d-487e-8632-1100b5624f36<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=OTY2ODIxMSM3NDc0NDgyIzIxODU3MzY=\" \/> <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/N2YxY2M4ZDYtMGJlMi00YjNmLTk0YmQtOTIzMjk5NTQwNDk4LTExOTcyOTAtMjAyNi0wMy0wOS1lbg==\/tiny\/Acronis-Inc-.png\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/NewsRoom\/AttachmentNg\/f70be083-b458-42fe-b575-529c5c261088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/f70be083-b458-42fe-b575-529c5c261088\/small\/acronis-svg-png.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Primary Logo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:0px;width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"clear:both\" \/>\n<div style=\"float: right;padding-left:20px\">\n<div>\n<h5>Acronis Releases 2025 ESG Report Highlighting Progress in Sustainability, Workforce Engagement, and Responsible Technology<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/NewsRoom\/AttachmentNg\/d879fbdd-d97d-487e-8632-1100b5624f36\/en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/d879fbdd-d97d-487e-8632-1100b5624f36\/medium\/acronis-releases-2025-esg-report-highlighting-progress-in-su.jpg\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<h5>Acronis 2025 ESG Report showcases ongoing commitment to responsible business practices, sustainable growth, and protecting the digital world <\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <b>OESP<\/b> nao e(sao) responsavel(is) por erros, incorrecoes, atrasos ou quaisquer decisoes tomadas por seus clientes com base nos Conteudos ora disponibilizados, bem como tais Conteudos nao representam a opiniao da <b>OESP<\/b> e sao de inteira responsabilidade da <b>GlobeNewswire<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, March  09, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; 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