On-the-Ground Job Transformation for Maximum Business, DEI, & Social Impact
Achieving above-market returns requires a thoughtful, deliberate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) strategy — and addressing the “S” starts with frontline job quality.
Our WORC Action services enhance your value-creation plans by catalyzing business practice change for alpha through designing jobs that:
Fully value frontline employees, both at work and away from it
Attract and retain diverse candidates
Deliver real opportunities for advancement that increase underrepresented segments beyond the front line
Driven by your DEI/ESG goals, we help you build value-creation plans that center worthwhile jobs to generate positive business impact and superior investment returns.
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Worthwhile jobs are an empirically-validated pathway to alpha for investors and an imperative for DEI-driven business results
Capitalism should benefit every stakeholder
WORC operates from a science-backed thesis that Better Jobs Mean Better Business®, a proven proposition that worthwhile frontline jobs make more satisfied, engaged, and productive workers — who contribute directly to greater business profitability and above-market investment returns.
Worthwhile jobs are essential to attracting and retaining diverse talent, amplifying the benefits of DEI across entire organizations.
Our team values employee, investor, and employer outcomes equally, guided by an objective, evidence-informed approach to implementation.
There’s always a better way
Through WORC Action, our team advances the goals of impact/ESG investors and employers to help create an economy where every worker has a job worth having.
We activate the scientific evidence base to creatively and collaboratively design new approaches and ways of working and develop action plans that include implementation strategies and impact measurement plans.
Our WORC Action services
for Portfolio Companies
After a deal closes, WORC partners with investors to build value-creation plans that disrupt outdated, growth-limiting practices and blow the door to above-market returns wide open.
We offer a number of sophisticated services and tools to measure and track progress.
Baseline diagnostics that consider the leadership team’s perspective and elevate employee voice with our proprietary Worthwhile Jobs Employee Survey™ that emphasizes factors material to financial results
Worthwhile Jobs Action Plans™, which align baseline diagnostic results with the scientific evidence base to transform jobs into engines of value
Annual progress tracking for portfolio companies based on our proprietary Worthwhile Jobs Index Score™, which is aligned with scientifically-validated aspects of material ESG measures included in:
GIIN’s IRIS+ employment impact theme
B Impact Assessment Workers Impact Area
Sustainalytics’ MEI.13 Human Capital theme
Thompson Reuter’s TRESG Workforce Score
MSCI’s Human Capital theme
Worthwhile Jobs™ annual trend analysis, calculated for investors at the portfolio level for strategy optimization and impact reporting for limited partners
Return-on-Worthwhile-Jobs™ advanced statistical analysis, calculated once enough fund exits accumulate to validate both investment returns and ESG impact
With our Worthwhile Jobs Scorecard™, we help investors uncover hidden risk not priced into asset value (i.e., beta risk) that arises from poor job quality practices (materiality). We also objectively assess a management team’s ability to make and keep worthwhile jobs a priority (potentiality).
Engagement @WORC™ Surveys
Grounded in organizational science and focused on critical workforce outcomes, our strategic engagement surveys:
Measure business KPIs that help diagnose issues and opportunities
Center on job characteristics that are strongly correlated with the KPIs
Deliver customized reporting based on business units, job roles, or other operationally important distinctions
Include rigorous statistical significance testing to filter out noise and focus on meaningful variation
Point directly to steps organizations can take to achieve strategic priorities and improve specific outcomes
Consider us a partner, never a vendor
We enter every WORC Action relationship as an objective outsider with full recognition of your own unique ecosystem, opportunities, challenges, and goals.
We work creatively and collaboratively, always through an equity lens. And we generate powerful, rigorous evidence while paving a pathway for your own continuous iteration and improvement.
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