ESG Reporting and Key Performance Indicators
FREE01 – HR & Sustainability
This CIPD Level 0 video, part of the FREE01 HR & Sustainability unit, explores how people professionals can leverage ESG reporting and key performance indicators to influence sustainable decision-making in their organisations. The video covers essential HR analytics and KPI frameworks—including turnover, absence, engagement, and pay and progression fairness—whilst examining how employee relations insights and governance forums support evidence-based reporting. By understanding how to interpret and present these sustainability metrics, learners will gain the skills to use data strategically when advising on organisational ESG initiatives and demonstrating the people function's contribution to responsible business practice.
What this video covers
Covering Assessment Criterion 2.3 from the FREE01 HR & Sustainability unit, this video examines how people professionals contribute to ESG reporting and the role that HR analytics plays in making sustainability measurable. ESG — Environmental, Social, and Governance — forms the three-pillar structure around which the video is organised, and the content addresses how workforce data feeds into all three categories rather than only the Social pillar. The video considers the audiences that read ESG reports, including investors, customers, and employees, and discusses why the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the underlying data determines the credibility of any report.
A significant portion of the video is dedicated to the specific KPIs that people professionals generate and interpret in a sustainability context. These include employee turnover, absence rates, and engagement scores, alongside pay and progression fairness metrics such as the gender pay gap and pay equity analysis across ethnicity, disability, and age. The video also addresses workforce composition and diversity data, health, safety and wellbeing metrics, and training and development investment as inputs to ESG reporting. For each KPI type, the video covers what the indicator can reveal and why segmenting data — for example by department, tenure, or demographic group — matters for drawing meaningful conclusions.
Beyond the Social pillar, the video covers people-related contributions to Environmental and Governance reporting, including data on commuting patterns, business travel, ethical conduct statistics, compliance training completion rates, and board and leadership diversity. Governance forums and reporting mechanisms are addressed alongside the role of employee relations data, such as grievance statistics, as evidence sources. Throughout, the video connects these data points to the specific question of how people professionals can use HR evidence to influence sustainable organisational decision-making.
Assessment Criteria 2.3
Explain how people professionals can use evidence to influence sustainable decision-making.
Indicative Content
To include: HR analytics; ESG reporting inputs; KPIs (turnover, absence, engagement, pay and progression fairness); insights from employee relations; governance forums and reporting.
What You'll Learn
Video covering: ESG Reporting and Key Performance Indicators
About FREE01 – HR & Sustainability
To develop learners’ understanding of sustainability as a people issue and the role people professionals play in embedding sustainable, ethical and responsible working practices.
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