Employees Trained (OI4229)

This metric is intended to capture the number of individual employees who received training services of any type from the organization during the reporting period.

Training can be categorized as: (a) skills-based training to advance core job responsibilities (enhancing employees' ability to do their jobs effectively); (b) skills-based training on cross-job functions (training beyond regular job responsibilities, enabling employees' to advance in their professions); (c) training on literacy, communications, and other life skills; or (d) trainings related to diversity and inclusion (for example, training on implicit bias or sexual harassment). Organizations should footnote details on the training(s) provided, including the type.

Registrations for training should not be counted under this metric. Rather, this metric should count those employees who completed a training session or series during the reporting period.

A description of the training provided should be footnoted, aligning with the descriptive metric GRI 404-2: Programs for upgrading employee skills and transition programs.

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.