ESG Social Indicators
Measure the social footprint and strengthen your CSR strategy
Measuring your company’s social footprint is a key step for any organization that wants to improve its CSR performance, meet the expectations of employees, investors, clients, and banks, and establish sustainable ESG reporting.
Integration into your sustainability journey
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Diagnosis
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Measurement
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Certification
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Reports
Measuring the social footprint of your company also means anticipating legal and societal developments. The recent European directive on pay transparency (Pay Transparency Directive) imposes new obligations regarding pay equity, social reporting, and diversity in the workplace. Integrating these aspects into your ESG social indicators today not only prepares your impact reports but also enhances your visibility with clients, investors, and partners who are sensitive to issues of transparency, inclusion, and social responsibility. At BetterBusiness, we offer a progressive and transparent support approach: from collecting basic social data to building actionable ESG reporting. Each approach delivers tangible results, tailored to your needs, ambitions, and resources.
What is a company’s social footprint?
The social footprint refers to all the human and societal impacts generated by an organization’s activities.
It helps to make visible realities that are still scarcely measured: working conditions, fairness, diversity and inclusion, human rights, local engagement, impact on stakeholders, etc.
Standards and Guidelines Used
To ensure the reliability and comparability of your ESG social indicators, our support is based on solid and recognized methodological frameworks:
ESRS Social Reporting & Social Materiality Analysis
European standards that structure non-financial reporting and help identify and prioritize the key social issues for your company and stakeholders.
B Lab 2025 Standards
Alignment with the new requirements of the B Corp label, a global reference for societal and environmental impact.
SDGs
Measurable contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to assess the social impact of your company
European ESG Frameworks & UNEP FI Sustainable Reporting
Common framework used by investors, banks, and financial partners to evaluate companies’ social and sustainable performance.
European Directive on Pay Transparency
New legal obligation that requires enhanced monitoring of pay equity and regular reporting on pay gaps, in order to ensure regulatory compliance and strengthen the credibility of CSR commitments.
Why measure your company’s social footprint?
Measuring your company’s social footprint allows you to:
Strengthen
employee engagement by tracking ESG social indicators such as pay equity, workplace well-being, or diversity and inclusion.
Reassure
investors by providing verifiable data that demonstrate your responsible management of social issues and the alignment of your ESG social indicators with the best standards
Meet
the expectations of banks and financial partners, who are increasingly attentive to social criteria when granting sustainable financing.
Showcase
your commitments to your customers, who seek transparency, credibility, and positive impact in their relationships with brands.
Involve
your suppliers and partners in a shared social responsibility approach, thereby strengthening the resilience of your value chain.
Ensure
your compliance with the new European regulations, particularly the directive on pay transparency, which requires rigorous monitoring of pay equity and social reporting.
By structuring your social indicators, you build a solid, credible CSR strategy that is in line with legislation and recognized by all your stakeholders.
BetterBusiness Support
Our methodology is based on five steps tailored for SMEs that want to measure their social impact and align their ESG social indicators to strengthen the credibility of their social impact report.
1. Preparation
Defining objectives, scope, and timeline.
2. Social Data Collection
Diversity, inclusion, job quality, well-being, local suppliers.
3. Analysis
Verification, sectoral comparison, identification of improvement levers.
4. Processing
Structuring ESG social indicators and aligning them with the SDGs.
5. Tool Development
User-friendly file, dynamic charts, and turnkey impact report.
This support allows you to structure your ESG social indicators, prepare your impact reports, and strengthen the credibility of your CSR commitments with clients, partners, and investors.