At the core of the craft of consulting is solid research, on practical issues which enable managers to do their work better. Like academia, but different as the ends are not the politics of h-index. Both feed off each other. Professional services create value in their very elegance, and in their nadir a copy-paste machine.

Human rights from a corporate perspective from the lens of the global south is a matter of vendor compliance in adherence to EU CSRD and a plethora of emergent legislation’s. The compliance is normally enterprise level and tier 2 vendors at the maximum yet the rot lies hidden from the audit gaze. In the era of activist transparency, human rights needs to be deeper with greater vendor accountability through long term interventions, in a cross stakeholder fashion to bring out tangible change which ultimately can be reported. Unlike carbon, human rights compliance is an everyday operational affair. Good health and safety is human rights as well, and Eurocentric moorings of human rights can be incorporated into local registers of understanding, as good work makes for motivated employees and charged millennial end users.

There is a business case for going beyond compliance for human rights. If the civil society can find loop holes being bottom up, the corporations can do the same in a collaborative approach. Imagination and intention solves problems.

#healthandsafety #humanrights #compliance #work #audit #business #change

Human rights from a corporate perspective from the lens of the global south is a matter of vendor compliance in adherence to EU CSRD and a plethora of emergent legislation’s. The compliance is normally enterprise level and tier 2 vendors at the maximum yet the rot lies hidden from the audit gaze. In the era of activist transparency, human rights needs to be deeper with greater vendor accountability through long term interventions, in a cross stakeholder fashion to bring out tangible change which ultimately can be reported. Unlike carbon, human rights compliance is an everyday operational affair. Good health and safety is human rights as well, and Eurocentric moorings of human rights can be incorporated into local registers of understanding, as good work makes for motivated employees and charged millennial end users.

There is a business case for going beyond compliance for human rights. If the civil society can find loop holes being bottom up, the corporations can do the same in a collaborative approach. Imagination and intention solves problems.

#healthandsafety #humanrights #compliance #work #audit #business #change

Desi diaspora spaces are a chimera, near home aesthetically yet a foreignness to it, a transnational sphere which has an in between characteristic, a creole texture- where the pav bhaji from Kailash Parbat at Syed Alwi Lane in Singapore connects one to Colaba where the Sindhis set foot from Karachi after Partition.

Sindhis have a history as a dispersed polity from Kowloon to Bur Dubai to High Street Centre next to the Singaporean Parliament. We search for intimacy and love in our own terms, transnational spaces offer that succour.

The picture is from 2019, next to the Sindhi Community Centre in Bur Dubai.

The racism in transnational migration networks gets translated into how dismally it gets reflected in the scholarship as well. So much for decolonial writing.

There are so many fire safety accidents and workplace injuries that can be prevented, through proactive measures. There is a massive depletion of investor value through it being a material risk.

ESG Due Diligences assist in creating a filter for risk for investors, and if done well can be an enterprise value add over the long term.

#ESGDD

A recent conversation with an Autowala in peak summer afternoon revealed the extent of heat stress on gig economy labor, the reduced work hours, the few places to refill cold water, the skin infections and the preferred Uber rides instead of the auto. Climate change is real.