Issue 064 · Wednesday, 9 September 2026
The statement companies had to make about their employees was removed last year, on the ground that investors did not need it
4 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt Brazil We went looking for what a new consultation would take away, and found it had already gone
- Dr. Leah Sandoval The test was whether investors needed it. The thing being measured was employees, and an employee has never been a user of an annual report
- Dr. Ines Calderón The same schedule lost its employee section in April and gained a supplier section in January. Nobody planned that and it is still what happened
- Ada Okafor Everybody who bears the cost of a disclosure gets told the consultation is open. The people it describes are not on the list