Certificates can validate systems — but they cannot validate lived experience.
In this episode of The Compact Lens, Sneha and Arshath take you beyond audit checklists and into the real stories unfolding across factories, worksites, and supply chains. Through deep field insights and firsthand conversations with workers, they reveal a powerful truth.
Drawing from Social Compact’s work with 65+ companies, this episode unpacks:
Why certifications capture process partially, not people
The invisible realities of contractual and migrant workers
How systems can appear compliant while exploitation continues
The role of worker voice as the true indicator of dignity
The shift from reactive compliance to proactive wellbeing
What companies gain when they reflect, not just report
This conversation calls on leaders, contractors, and organisations to rethink responsibility — not as a once-a-year audit, but as a daily practice embedded in culture, relationships, and listening.
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In this second episode of The Compact Lens, we explore the idea of thinking beyond compliance. Through the lens of Social Compact’s work, we discuss how businesses have different approaches which are reactive and proactive and how that impacts them and the workers. The episode closes by setting the stage for Episode 3, where we go beyond certification to uncover what it really takes to create lasting, systemic change.
In the inaugural episode of The Compact Lens, we explore the pervasive challenge of informality in India’s workforce and what it means for companies striving to ensure worker well-being. Through the lens of Social Compact’s work, we discuss how businesses can move from fragmented practices to building structures and processes that truly strengthen social sustainability for their own workers. The episode closes by setting the stage for Episode 2, where we go beyond compliance to uncover what it really takes to create lasting, systemic change.