Recent indicators showing falling productivity and a rapid increase in unit labor costs suggest the pressure is building.

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They evaluated the remaining 350 companies using key environmental, social, and governance performance indicators, including waste productivity, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, leadership diversity, and employee turnover.

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With workforce analytics, the company has gained ongoing visibility into labor costs and tracks key performance indicators such as overtime and productivity.

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Unlike opinion polls or other qualitative-based measures of reputation, however, these metrics speak to the behaviors of its various stakeholder groups, and correlate factors like earnings multiples, pricing, employee productivity and retention, vendor terms, supply chain sustainability, and other operational indicators.

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