Cirrus Logic

Honoree: Mid-Size – Technology Industry

Company Overview

Cirrus Logic, headquartered in Austin, Texas is a supplier of low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits for mobile applications including smartphones, tablets, digital headsets, and smart home technologies. Beyond tech, Cirrus Logic has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to corporate social responsibility, remaining diligent in their strategic efforts to positively contribute to improving the world around them.

Sustainable Business Practices

As a fabless semiconductor company, Cirrus Logic relies on a first-class network of supply chain partners – foundries, assembly, and test facilities – to manufacture their products for customers worldwide. Cirrus Logic implements the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and sustainability among its global partners in order to ensure products manufactured under the Cirrus Logic brand represent the highest benchmarks for corporate social responsibility. Integrity is at the root of conservation, and Cirrus Logic has made a commitment to the values they have as a company that allows them to develop products responsibly, sustainably, and always with a passion for innovative ideas that drive new technologies.

Beyond sustainable business operations, Cirrus Logic offers a sustainable, free-of-charge commuter private shuttle program for their Austin and Edinburgh, Scotland, employees. They also provide bike lockers, bike safety equipment, and electronic vehicle charging stations to promote environmentally friendly alternatives to motor vehicles. On any typical workday in Austin, around 20% of Cirrus Logic employees commute through some form of alternative transportation – a significant effort to reduce their carbon footprint while contributing to a reduction in traffic congestion. Due to their efforts, Cirrus Logic was named the 2019 Center for Urban Transportation Research’s Best Workplace for Commuters.

Conservation Programs

Transportation Alternatives

The Cirrus Logic transportation initiative has successfully taken about 20% of employee vehicles off the road on their daily commute on any given workday, which equates to 160 of their 800 downtown Austin-based employees. This initiative annually reduces up to ~600 metric tons of carbon dioxide that would have otherwise ended up in the atmosphere. Their employees that take alternative forms of transportation such as local trains and buses are provided 100% reimbursement. In addition to this, the company also operates two park and ride type shuttle services—one in North Austin and one in South Austin—which are designed to both ease the commute experience and get cars off the congested Austin freeways.

Environmental Stewardship

Cirrus Logic’s Corporate Social Responsibility Team combines representatives from a wide variety of corporate functions to focus on ensuring that the company has cohesive programs for conservation and sustainability, as well as making sure that they are using the best business practices throughout their day-to-day operations that allow them to always function with the highest levels of integrity and ethical standards.

In 2018, Cirrus Logic’s formed a formal Corporate Social Responsibility Team. This team combines representatives from a wide variety of corporate functions to focus on ensuring that the company has cohesive programs for conservation and sustainability, as well as making sure that they are using the best business practices throughout their day-to-day operations that allow them to always function with the highest levels of integrity and ethical standards.

Building a Sustainable Future

Innovation is key at Cirrus Logic, as they believe that organizations that value innovation at all levels – from products, services, or corporate culture – will provide the solutions to help combat the greatest global challenges. They also believe that a workforce is a resource, and strong corporate cultures matter. Innovative programs to develop the modern workforce drive their employee programs and enable them to foster conservation through projects that focus on recycling, pollution reduction, and community involvement initiatives that help strengthen urban communities.

Texan-Led Conservation

Cirrus Logic moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas from California’s Silicon Valley in 1998. They value Texas as the home to their corporation’s largest employee base due to the draw of the Austin community, a highly educated workforce, and the surrounding appeal of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Texas’ commitment to remain business-friendly allows their company to remain highly competitive in a global landscape.