Improving data on how companies manage workers across their operations and supply chains.
The Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) is one of the world’s leading programmes aimed at improving corporate transparency and accountability on workforce issues, providing companies and investors with comprehensive and comparable data and helping increase the provision of good jobs worldwide.
Through the programme’s annual survey and engagement, we collect and process data that companies voluntarily disclose on workforce practices across their operations and supply chains. We then share this information with our signatory investors, to inform their analysis, stewardship and decision making. We also share practical insights on how to address pressing workforce issues.
Around 140 of the world’s largest companies disclose their data, while our investor coalition is made up of around 35 institutions that collectively manage $7.5 trillion in assets.
Find out more about participating the WDI as a company to demonstrate your leadership in transparency and your commitment to providing good jobs.
Join the coalition of leading investors that is pushing companies to become pioneers in corporate transparency and responsible workforce management.
To date, companies disclosing data to the WDI have provided evidence of efforts to improve health and safety standards, policies and practices related to employee wellbeing and human rights, and actions related to supply chain management.
Powered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the WDI survey is a comprehensive and comparable reporting system that feeds into environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting regulations.
The global workforce is currently undergoing significant changes, exposing workers to new risks and opportunities while exacerbating existing ones. Global transformations (including the rise of automation and the net-zero transition) offer opportunities for workers worldwide while also endangering certain areas of employment.
Read our insights into how the WDI survey questions overlap with and complement the CSRD, and how the WDI framework adds value to any regulated reporting a company has to do.
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Improving data on how companies manage workers across their operations and supply chains.
