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Finding the Sweet Spot: Impactt Launches New Report

Today we launch our 15th anniversary report, a major new piece of work that identifies how to deliver real wins for purchasers, supplier business and most importantly workers.
Over the last 15 years we have seen brands and purchasers valiantly try valiantly to cajole, persuade, regulate and instruct their suppliers and sub-contractors to comply with local law and international standards on decent work. However none of these have made a noticeable dent in the systematic abuse of workers’ rights in global supply chains.
Impactt’s work indicates that the key is to find the sweet spot, where the interests of the purchaser, supplier and worker intersect. Understanding worker perspectives and developing motivating packages of benefits are the vital first steps. Entrepreneurs and employers around the world are increasingly eager to identify this sweet spot – how to compete in an increasingly uncertain world by harnessing the power of the workforces to produce better products more efficiently.
The report explores Impactt’s work in finding this sweet spot through insightful case studies:
  • Case study 1 – Lives & livelihoods
    What workers want and what ‘decent work’ really means for them
  • Case study 2 – Bridging the gap: putting workers at the centre of the agenda
    Providing high levels of job satisfaction and a package which meet workers’ needs
  • Case study 3 – Factory improvement projects: supporting great businesses and good jobs
    The results of Impactt’s work to provide better jobs and support more competitive and efficient businesses
The report also sets out Impactt’s experience of what happens when things go wrong:
  • Case study 4 – Remediation and education for life: tackling child labour to bring long-term benefits to children and their families
    Setting out what works and what doesn’t in getting working children back to school.
  • Case study 5 – Managed closure: protecting workers when businesses fail
    Impactt’s step by-step guidelines for supporting workers during factory closures
We call on purchasing companies, suppliers, investors, governments, trade unions and NGOs to work together as the success of ethical trade in this new world depends on their commitment and prioritisation of workers’ needs.
We hope you find this report a fascinating read and look forward to your comments.
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