ISS sponsors WageMap to promote living wages globally

Today, ISS announces its official sponsorship of WageMap. Through this commitment, ISS supports the consortium’s mission to achieve living wages worldwide by establishing a Living Wage Reference Standard and a public dataset of globally comparable, locally specific living wage estimates. 

With this sponsorship, ISS is taking an important step towards its pledge of working together with policymakers, customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders to increase the implementation of living wages across the industry. 

“Defining what constitutes a living wage in every country is an essential step towards advancing living wage practices, increasing pay transparency, and ensuring accountability. Therefore, we are extremely proud to sponsor an organisation like WageMap. Their efforts to provide the framework and foundation needed to achieve living wages, align perfectly with our social commitments,” says Liz Benison, ISS’s Group Chief People & Transformation Officer at ISS.  

Benefits for people and businesses  
The living wage pledge is one of the ‘signature’ commitments that make up  

ISS’s social sustainability agenda to ensure fairness, inclusion, and opportunities for the company’s more than 320,000 employees, their families, and the broader society.  

“Social sustainability is at the heart of our operations at ISS, and promoting a real living wage is at the forefront of that with a broad range of positive impacts. In addition to supporting everyday needs, living wages also improve access to education and overall quality of life for both employees and their families.  

Furthermore, our data, along with insights from The Living Wage Foundation, demonstrate that living wages are not only beneficial for employees but also for business. As an example, in the UK, 87% of living wage employers reported an improved reputation, and 62% observed better recruitment and retention in their latest survey,” says Liz Benison. 

About WageMap  
WageMap is a consortium of living wage data and service providers that have come together to drive alignment across living wage methodologies and frameworks. Over 2024 - 2025, we will establish a credible and representative living wage reference standard which assesses existing living wage estimates and benchmarking methodologies. This will lead WageMap to publish a public dataset with the single living wage estimate value that is most applicable and representative in a specific geography. In this way, we aim to accelerate the transition towards closing the gap between prevailing wages and living wages – globally. WageMap is founded by six organisations: BSR, the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Social Policy, Living Wage For US, Inc., the Living Wage Foundation, NewForesight, and Wage Indicator.  

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Charlotte Holm, Head of External Communication, +45 4176 1989 

About ISS 

ISS is a leading workplace experience and facility management company. In partnership with customers, ISS drives the engagement and well-being of people, minimises the impact on the environment, and protects and maintains property. ISS brings all of this to life through a unique combination of data, insight and service excellence at offices, factories, airports, hospitals and other locations across the globe. ISS has more than 350,000 employees around the globe, who we call “placemakers”. In 2023, ISS Group’s global revenue amounted to DKK 78.7 billion. For more information on the ISS Group, visit www.issworld.com