Investor perspectives: people data and reporting
Exploring the evidence for how different types of investors use people data when making investment decisions.
Exploring the evidence for how different types of investors use people data when making investment decisions.
The CIPD, in collaboration with Warwick Business School and the University of Kansas School of Business, has explored if and how investors use people data to inform their investment decisions. We conducted a literature review and interviews with investors to understand how people data can support better corporate governance and investor stewardship.
Our report, Investor perspectives on workforce data, highlights growing recognition of the value of the workforce and importance of data, but there’s lack of consistency on how companies report the information. The key recommendations are:
Our literature review, Do investors use people data when making investment decisions?, published in October 2017 highlights growing recognition of the value of the workforce and importance of data, but there’s lack of consistency on how companies report the information.
The following animation demonstrates the key findings of the literature review.
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