What is Ethical Outsourcing?
Many outsourcing companies cut costs by underpaying workers, offering minimal training, and bypassing labor laws, as exposed by this bombshell ProPublica article.
HigherRing was founded to be the opposite.
We pay living wages, provide benefits, offer paid training, and hire all team members as employees (not contractors) with access to healthcare, company ownership, and paid time off.
These three pillars are how we define ethical outsourcing at HigherRing:
We’re Client Mission Aligned
We’re Impact Driven
We’re Employee Centric
Client Mission Aligned
Mission Aligned Team Members
We’ll pair you with team members who are passionate about your impact and excited to move your mission forward.
Our team members are passionate activists, engaged in causes like reproductive rights, food security, urban ecosystem education, voting rights advocacy, and animal rescue and more!
Impact Driven Partnerships
We collaborate with mission-driven clients, many with certifications like B Corp and 1% for the Planet, who tackle critical global challenges like DEI awareness, equitable access to investment capital, nutrition access, clean energy solutions, the opioid crisis, social and emotional learning in classrooms, sustainable packaging, plastic waste reduction and more.
Impact Driven
People & Planet Over Profit
We back up our claims with a commitment to protect the environment threaded through all we do.
We proudly contribute 1% of our revenue, not just profits through 1% for the Planet, we offset our emissions through third party offsets and we are verified by People + Planet First.
Authenticating Our Values
HigherRing has been certified as a B Corp since August of 2018. We believe in business as a force for good and we’re proud to authenticate our impact with B Lab.
Employee Centric
Ethical Beginnings
Our CEO, Michelle, founded HigherRing to challenge the unethical treatment she witnessed in big retail and tech start-ups, where frontline workers were often underpaid 1099 contractors without benefits.
HigherRing was built to provide quality remote jobs with full W-2 employment for every team member.
Fair Practices = Shared Success
We prioritize livable wages, benefits, and employee stock incentives because supporting our team leads to exceptional work and long-term success.
Through Open Book Management, we ensure financial transparency, increase team members’ financial literacy, and reward collective achievements.
Mission & Values
Our Values
We demonstrate our beliefs through our actions. We walk the talk and practice transparency.
We are helpful and seek to leave things better than we found them.
We will strive to see positive intentions in one another. It’s important to treat each other fairly and with compassion.
We believe in a community mindset and give our time and resources to create beneficial impacts for our clients, our employees, and the earth.
We are curious, proactive, and adaptable. We understand that challenges happen and rely on our collective experience to explore solutions.
