CSR Policy

Logicites’ Corporate Social Responsability commitments

Logicités is a small specialist design office. Its small size is no obstacle to the implementation of a highly committed CSR policy, on its own scale, both in its day-to-day internal operations and through its partnerships and the causes defended by its projects.

Logicités’ business, and its core activity around urban logistics, is by nature dedicated to environmental causes. The studies we carry out are all chosen in line with our values of reducing the environmental impact of urban deliveries and logistics in general. We offer tailor-made solutions, adapted to each territory and in line with the objectives set by territorial planning documents.

Its day-to-day operations are also governed by an environmental and social ethic that is reflected in 6 key areas:

  • There is a lot of travelling involved for a design office whose remit covers the whole of France (metropolitan and overseas) as well as certain foreign countries.Son fonctionnement interne, à l’échelle d’un petit bureau d’études présent à Paris et Nantes
  • Its inclusive and balanced policy
  • Its involvement with associations and voluntary work
  • Scientific rigour
  • Sharing and passing on knowledge

Team mobility
that favours
low-carbon modes of transport

All daily journeys between home and work are made by bicycle or public transport. No employee has a company car. In addition, teleworking is widespread, both in Paris and Nantes.

Logicités makes bicycles available to employees: either with a reimbursement of 50% of the fixed rental price of a bicycle or by purchasing a second-hand bicycle.

Videoconference meetings, which emit fewer emissions than face-to-face travel, are preferred as far as possible, subject to customer requests.

Business trips within mainland France and Europe are all made by train, or by car pooling if there is no train solution.

No business trips are made by plane, except to remote countries or regions where no other solution is realistic in terms of the commitments made: Overseas France and Morocco. In these cases, we keep the number of business trips to a minimum by concentrating our activities over a given period.

Car journeys are made when no other realistic means exists for the planned trips. They are exceptional and are generally local (travel by train and car hire on site when necessary).

Videoconference meetings are preferred, both internally, with partner consultancies, for research interviews and with customers.

Energy-efficient
day-to-day
operation

The IT and telephony equipment used and necessary for its operation is kept as long as possible and repaired if necessary rather than changed (if repair is possible under normal conditions). When purchasing equipment, preference is given to second-hand products (e.g. smartphones and tablets).

Office supplies are reduced to what is strictly necessary and reused as much as possible: materials for running workshops, limiting paper printing to what is strictly necessary.

Items (e.g. books) are sent in cardboard sleeves. The company is adopting a ‘zero disposable plastic’ policy to the best of its ability. This ‘zero disposable plastic’ policy also applies to staff meals.

For sharing and sending large files, the use of shared storage spaces is preferred to sending emails with attachments. The use of third-party sites such as Wetransfer is kept to a minimum.

Gender balance

Logicités is a small organisation, but one which, through its employees, trainees and regular partners, respects gender balance and all orientations and origins.

This is never a criterion for recruitment or choice of partnership.

Logicités is also keen to include both young and senior players in the same team, so as to create mixed teams with a diversity of origins and ages.

A strong commitment to CSR,
inclusion and associations

Logicités is a member of 3 professionnal associations with which it shares values: Les Boîtes à Vélo, la Fabrique de la Logistique and Bretagne Supply Chain. Logicités members participate in the work of these associations as much as they can.

Logicités makes donations up to the legal limit of 0.5/°° of its turnover. In 2024, Logicités made 4 donations :

  • To The Shifters (an association of volunteers supporting the Shift Project) for organising the Projection Transition film festival
  • To Mayotte Nature Environnement
  • To Emeraude Solidaire, an association that develops and manages Cafés Joyeux (cafés that employ people with disabilities)
  • To Restos du Cœur

Logicités’ employees are all personally involved in various associations.

Scientific rigour
in the field

Logicités conducts a daily information and technology watch, both nationally and internationally, to advise on the latest and most effective innovations.

Nothing can be taken for granted and technologies evolve rapidly: Logicités obtains information from public and private sources on a daily basis in order to recommend the most environmentally relevant solutions possible.

We also have regular contacts with scientists: we work regularly with a transport economist and research laboratories such as LAET and Gustave Eiffel University.

Transmission at the heart
of its CSR policy

From the outset, Logicités has developed a policy of sharing and passing on its knowledge of urban logistics. This policy of transmission is expressed in several ways:

  • Publication of 3 books on urban logistics by its founder, Jérôme Libeskind. These books are available on the market and are also widely available in university libraries.
  • Urban logistics courses given by the various members of the team. Logicités has given courses at the Ecole Supérieure des Transports, in the Master TLTE programme at Paris-Sorbonne, in various engineering and business schools and, in 2024, at the IAE in Caen and at ESLI in Redon.
  • Participation in juries for dissertations, master classes, start-ups, etc.
  • Conferences on urban logistics. Logicités is heavily involved in organising conferences and round tables on urban logistics. By taking part in these events, Logicités is helping to disseminate ideas on this subject.
  • Volunteering to help numerous students with their dissertations, start-ups, working groups and hearings on urban logistics.