The Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) collates voluntarily disclosed data on businesses’ people operations. One of the world’s leading programmes to improve transparency and accountability on workforce issues, WDI provides companies and investors with comprehensive and comparable insights.
After seven years of incubation by responsible investment charity ShareAction, WDI transferred to the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2024, to accelerate its growth through our global networks, media and legal expertise.
About
With millions of workers involved in their operations and processes, multinational companies are critical to shaping responsible and ethical business practices. However, there is limited data about how businesses of all sizes impact people – both those employed in their direct operations and workers throughout supply chains.
WDI closes this gap. The initiative collects data that is voluntarily disclosed by companies on workforce issues across their operations and supply chains, from diversity and inclusion to workplace conditions. We share this information with investor signatories to inform their analysis, stewardship and decision making.
Around 145 of the world’s largest companies disclose their data to WDI. Our investor coalition is made up of around 50 institutions that collectively manage $7.5 trillion in assets.
Through WDI’s insights, we advance corporate transparency to raise human rights accountability and standards, enabling businesses to thrive whilst doing no harm.
Ways to get involved in the WDI
Companies
By participating in the WDI voluntary disclosure process, companies demonstrate their commitment to decent work and transparency, limit their risks, and gain competitiveness.
Investors
By using WDI data, investors gain valuable insights into corporate transparency and responsible workforce management that can help inform their sustainable investment strategies.
Our impact
Trillion
Assets under management held by WDI investor signatories.
Companies
Responding to the WDI survey in 2024.
Million
Workers directly employed by companies responding to the WDI survey in 2024.
More data
Businesses that disclose via WDI voluntarily share nearly three times more data about how they manage people in their operations than those that are not.
2023
Workforce Transparency Awards
These annual awards celebrate companies for their efforts in promoting corporate transparency. They are based on the level of information that companies provide to the WDI survey, recognising the importance of data to strengthen and scale sustainable business models.
Get Involved
Together, we can harness WDI’s data intelligence to strengthen responsible business practices and protect workers worldwide.
Get in touch to find out more about opportunities to use WDI data or to partner with us to advance workforce reporting.
