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What is the legal and ethical status of data collected by interviewing workers in social audits? We thought that might be quite a simple question - but there's quite a lot to this topic. Find out what we found out!

Worker voice surveys have been around a long time. Yet they are not a standard component of labour rights due diligence processes for responsible and ethical sourcing teams. But there is now a better way.

There are new areas of risk emerging relating to labour (labor) rights - it's not just the traditional supply chain. This post gives examples of new focus issues for ethical, sustainability and human rights teams, and how to address them.

The humans (workers) are missing from human rights due diligence. What would an ideal technology platform look like to address this? These are the principles defining the Ask the workers approach - and also underwrite how the impact that the platform can make.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This post explores what that involves in practice.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 2 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 3 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.

Prompted by discussions we have had with several brands in the last two weeks, we explain how its possible to have worker data or worker voice collected via a single process and then shared with everyone who needs to see it, when they need to see it.

What if ethical sourcing policies were increasing risks for Business rather than reducing them? This might be the case - here we explain why, and give some examples.

Across sub-contractors, supply chains and agencies - you can find you have many workers contributing to your enterprise that you don't know. Here's a short note on how to understand and manage your wider worker human rights responsibilities.

This post collects up our FAQs into one place. You can find our FAQs better presented on our home page, and you can ask your questions to our AI Chat and also get the benefit of Claude's wider knowledge.

Business should recognise its duty of care to workers in its locations and supply chains. Here's why and what government should do.

Ask the workers is our new brand - all the workers, all the time. And there's more news coming, including new technology and partnerships.

We all want simple answers. But bad ESG measurement systems are dangerous – it can make things worse.

PrimaESG - providing proof of source and proof of claim at global scale from supply chains

See ES3G in one minute - and how continuous worker monitoring enables you to know how workers are treated in your supply chains. Simple, low

ESG can be a revenue and profit driver for enterprises if we can measure and communicate the impact of ESG compliance efforts.

Important article setting out the limitations of worker voice data

HRDD | human rights due diligence | ask the workers how they are treated

Worker voice and how it can be used to monitor workplace conditions and for human rights due diligence