ESG analysis: Happier employees predict higher stock prices

The research team at MarketPsych pulled together research on the relationship between workplace safety and corporate performance in homage to the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. We used our Refinitiv MarketPsych ESG Analytics – scores produced via AI-based scoring of millions of news and social media articles. Using that data we see that companies with safe and happy employees outperform their peers in the public markets. This effect is consistent with academic research on employee satisfaction1, and the effect appears to be global.