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Is forced labour your financial crime?
Bank MLROs and corporate treasury teams may face real liabilities — personal as well as corporate — if they authorise payments connected to supply chains tainted by forced labour. Forced labour also leads to financial crimes. This post explores the risks involved.
Apr 811 min read


Continuous worker voice - data
Too much data can be just as unhelpful as too little. Continuous worker voice provides new opportunities to dig into data - and well-designed dashboards and tools are essential.
Mar 305 min read


Continuous worker voice: 3 steps to start
Continuous worker voice is ground-breaking. But it is easy to launch with suppliers and workers because the platform is simple. This blog explains how to start.
Mar 245 min read


Ask The Workers - 1 million answers already
Ask The Workers crosses the first million questions asked and answered over our app - within 6 months of its commercial launch.
Mar 43 min read


Continuous worker voice
Continuous worker voice delivers "meaningful stakeholder engagement" as required by emerging laws and regulations. Read here about how it works and why it is simple to implement.
Feb 227 min read


Stakeholders in supply chain due diligence - who are they?
New supply chain due diligence laws (proposed and being enacted) require buyers to complete reasonable due diligence including consulting with stakeholders. But who are these stakeholders?
Feb 24 min read


A letter from Kolkata - why Worker Voice matters
Indranil Mandal, based in Kolkata in India, writes about worker voice, why it matters and why business should go beyond audit to safeguard workers in supply chains.
Jan 295 min read


AskTheWorkers.com
asktheworkers.com is our worker-facing site; it is a site for workers. It showcases our app with videos in 20+ spoken languages, why they should use our app, and how our app works.
Jan 173 min read


Ask The Elves
With a supply chain stretching from pole to pole, Santa has a lot of elves to worry about. Relying on snowcial audits is not enough. So Santa uses Ask The Elves which gives him real-time visibility over elf and safety across the whole chain.
Dec 15, 20253 min read


Why Ask The Workers?
Taking someone's word for it is not due diligence. That's why an effective approach means we must Ask The Workers. Find out why this is becoming a new standard for labour rights due diligence.
Nov 26, 20254 min read


Measuring the social UN SDGs
How many of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) relate to social matters - and how easy is it to measure performance against them?
Nov 26, 20254 min read


How effective are your labor rights due diligence tools?
We set out a simple theory that can be used to assess the effectiveness of due diligence tools for worker rights in supply chains - and there is a free app coming shortly using this theory - watch this space.
Sep 29, 20255 min read


A CFO briefing: Ask the workers
Implementing Ask the workers - a downloadable example briefing note for CFOs, including ROI and budget justification - 1 page summary and 4 page supporting note.
Sep 2, 20258 min read


Is collecting data directly from workers okay in a social audit?
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!
Aug 22, 202510 min read


Worker voice - improving surveys
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.
Jul 16, 20256 min read


Labour rights, a new focus?
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.
Jul 8, 20257 min read


The humans are missing: Ask the workers
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.
Jun 30, 20257 min read


Effective ethical sourcing: part 1
Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This post explores what that involves in practice.
May 29, 20254 min read


Effective ethical sourcing: part 2
Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 2 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.
May 29, 20255 min read


Effective ethical sourcing: part 3
Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 3 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.
May 29, 20254 min read
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