As a passionate biker, I always look forward to this time of year when Symantec Headquarters employees join thousands across the nation to participate in The League of American Bicyclists National Bike Month.

Bike to Work Day and Month has become a hugely popular nationwide event to celebrate the many benefits of bike transportation.  As featured in this great Bike to Work Day PSA, ‘Why do you Ride’, biking to work has numerous benefits for your health, your wallet and the environment. For example, for every one mile pedaled rather than driven, approximately one pound of CO²  is saved, and on a round-trip commute of 10 miles, bicyclists save around $10 daily....

We may not know who first said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” but we certainly understand the message!  Symantec, a member of Change the Equation,  is doing its part to help ensure that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning in  elementary, middle and high schools is not the same old thing leading to the same disappointing results.  Last week Symantec reaffirmed that commitment by hosting, along with Change the Equation and The California STEM Learning Network, a meeting at its offices in Mountain View for business leaders and others to engage around California’s role in both Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.

 For nearly 20 years, California has received plaudits for its content frameworks in K-12 mathematics and science. Both frameworks...

This week marks National Volunteer Week in the United States, an opportunity to focus attention on the impact and power of volunteerism and service as an integral aspect of civic leadership. Today, CEO Steve Bennett discusses Symantec's progress against the goal of creating a more empowered volunteer culture at Symantec.

We spend a lot of time talking about our company goals, offerings, marketing and sales, and the Symantec 4.0 transition. As a global company with employees in more than 50 countries, we have the unique ability to address some of society's biggest challenges as part of our business goals... we also have a bigger responsibility to make our world better.

Over the past several months, I’ve talked about corporate responsibility a lot internally – we’re  striving for corporate responsibility...

This month, Symantec is celebrating Earth Day by exploring our commitment to environmental responsibility. Previous posts have explored Symantec's commitment to LEED certification, and talked about our participation in Earth Hour. Today we hear from Kelly Shea, Symantec's sustainability program manager, on the results from Symantec's first global waste audit.

Symantec recently completed its very first set of “friendly” waste audits at local sites across the world to better understand our waste impacts. The audits are conducted according to the LEED-EBOM MRc6: Solid Waste Management...