Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at Workiva
Our commitment to building a better future.
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) goes far beyond Workiva's standards for financial and sustainability reporting. We are building a comprehensive approach focused on delivering business and social value driven by truth, trust, and transparency. We know the world is complex. Doing the right thing shouldn't be.
Environmental
Social
Governance
Workiva is committing to ESG through authentic and purposeful action—supporting our people and customers, protecting the environment, and conducting good business practices.
Our Stakeholders
We value and account for all of our stakeholders in our journey to building a better future.
Our Materiality Assessment
A materiality matrix is a visual tool used to demonstrate how the priority topics for Workiva map in terms to the business and importance to society. Each topic listed below is considered important to Workiva and will be addressed in our ESG strategy.
Our Strategic Pillars
Our Value Chain
As a cloud-based platform provider, our value chain is simple. It demonstrates the priority issues we identified in our materiality assessment, and where our business practices create value impact to our stakeholders and society in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our ESG Targets
Workiva is committing to ESG through authentic and purposeful action. Learn how we're supporting our people and customers, protecting the environment, and conducting good business practices.
Innovation
Enable transparent reporting for more companies, customers, cities, governments and other stakeholders by doubling our impact through focused education, awareness, and innovative leading-edge technology by 2025.
Environment
Things we love: Our planet. Science. Ambitious targets. We’re committed to reducing our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 63%, accelerating Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) and carbon offsetting initiatives, reducing our Scope 3 emissions by 2034 and progressing towards carbon net zero across our value chain by 2040.
Philanthropy
Leverage our expertise, resources and reach to narrow the digital divide by partnering with 10 community-based organizations that support historically marginalized communities, and engaging 70% of employees through giving and volunteerism by 2025.
People
Drive high workforce engagement and trust by maintaining a >90% employee engagement score, achieving 100% employee participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and reaching 40% employee participation in our Business Employee Resource Groups by 2025.
Our ESG Data Center
Awards and Recognition
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