Beyond Certification, Towards Dignified Work
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Beyond Certification, Towards Dignified Work
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About this listen
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.
Write to us at support@socialcompact.co for any queries / questions. Stay tuned!