ISO 30414 is the international standard for internal and external human capital reporting, defining metrics across workforce costs, diversity, leadership, culture, productivity, recruitment, skills and succession. It is the reference framework behind the US SEC’s human-capital disclosure requirement and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’s social metrics, which makes it the closest thing HR data has to a regulatory reporting schema.
ISO 30414
ISO 30414 is the international standard for internal and external human capital reporting, defining metrics across workforce costs, diversity, leadership, culture, productivity, recruitment, skills and succession. It is the closest thing HR data has to a regulatory reporting schema.
- A metric catalog - Named, defined measures, which is what makes cross-company comparison possible and what distinguishes it from generic HR guidance.
- Internal and external views - Some metrics are for management, some for disclosure, and the standard is explicit about which.
- Behind the disclosure rules - The reference framework underneath the US SEC’s human-capital disclosure requirement and the social metrics in the EU’s CSRD.
- Sold, not published - The document sits behind ISO’s paywall.
ISO 30414 is the counter-example to HR Open Standards in the same market. HR Open published free specifications for twenty years and the market ignored them; ISO 30414 sits behind a paywall and gets implemented, because regulators pointed at it. Adoption in this sector has never been a function of how available the standard is.
Industry: HR
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