Laborlink joins ELEVATE to scale worker voice technology

To scale our impact, we need to think bigger. Last year, we started looking at different pathways to scale, especially disruptive alternatives to the current audit system. We realized that to deliver on our mission we need to connect worker voice data to other rich data sources, including audit, self-assessment and capacity building data.

Among the leaders in this space today, no one has a deeper commitment to transparent audits or a broader set of tools to drive worker impact than ELEVATE. For that reason, we’re integrating Laborlink into ELEVATE’s products & services – with both our team and technology. ELEVATE combines insight with improvement, has deep in-country expertise and embraces disruptive approaches.

This integration is essential to realize our vision of a world where every worker is heard. We already have a history of successful partnership with ELEVATE. Through the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, we’ve partnered with ELEVATE, the project manager, to build Amader Kotha, a first-of-its-kind technology-driven helpline that receives calls on over 500 issues a month, including complaints about wages and benefits, and fire danger inside and outside factories. The helpline has been rolled out to over 1.2 million workers at 862 factories in Bangladesh.

Our mission remains unchanged. We will simply have more resources to continue serving the mission, with a larger set of tools to reach millions more workers.