It's a common trope that organizations proclaim their people as their biggest asset. A recent report for the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) by researchers from the University of Kansas and Warwick Business School suggests the reality might be somewhat different.
The paper set out to explore whether investors value human capital data, and if they do, what kind do they seem to prefer. Rather sadly, the analysis suggests that workforce data is largely ignored by analysts when assessing an organization, with the authors suggesting this might be because it's hard to find, with organizations not generally making such data public.