From intent to impact: 2025 global insights from the Workforce Disclosure Initiative

The annual WDI global findings report on workforce issues, drawing on data from almost 3,000 companies.

Overview

With millions of workers in their operations and supply chains, multinational companies are critical to driving responsible business practices worldwide.

For ten years, the Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) has supported companies and investors alike to improve transparency and accountability around workforce issues like health and wellbeing, promoting diversity, and interacting with worker’s representatives, unearthing the data insights they need to inform action – not only in direct operations, but also in supply chains, where human rights risks are often higher and harder to see.

In this 10th anniversary year, the report also draws on data from 2020-2025 to analyse longer-term trends.

• Board-level oversight of workforce and human rights issues has become a widespread signal of corporate intent, but there is still a wide gap between intent and impact.
• Governance structures prioritise the most visible issues, such as health and safety, while overlooking other business-critical areas such as workforce turnover and supply chain conditions.
• Global progress in workforce provisions has stalled or declined in recent years, even for baseline expectations such as discrimination and harassment policies.

What's inside?

To download this free resource, simply click the ‘Download’ button under ‘Access the report’ and fill in your details to download.

Once downloaded, you will have access to:

• global workforce findings from the 2025 WDI dataset, analysing public disclosure from almost 3,000 companies;
• thematic insights drawn from over 140 major companies who voluntarily disclosed in-depth data via the annual WDI survey, including the likes of Microsoft, NVIDIA and Alibaba;
• findings around oversight of supply chains and contingent workers, as well as direct operations and internal workforces;
• longer-term trends like progress in human rights risk management, workforce composition, and policies and provisions, analysed over the last six years when the data is most comparable.

Report snapshot

About this report

• Published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
• Backed by an investor coalition of around 25 institutions that collectively manage $5 trillion in assets.
• Findings are based on an analysis of publicly available data from 2,972 companies, plus insights from over 140 companies voluntarily disclosing in-depth data with WDI.