ManpowerGroup: Setting common standards for reporting on sustainability performance

ESG

Companies are expanding the metrics they use to define success well beyond profit and sales. In response to growing concerns among their employees, customers, investors, and impacted communities, many firms are making themselves accountable for their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices. Mainstream investors once considered such measures “non-financial,” but have come to understand both related risks and opportunities - and are demanding more related data. The amount of ESG information being made available by rating agencies, technology firms, and auditing and consulting firms has exploded as a result, and efforts are afoot to bring more coherence and consistenc...