A BDESE that does not serve social dialogue serves no purpose - and every update costs more than it contributes.
The BDESE (Economic, Social and Environmental Database - formerly BDES) has become an extended legal obligation, but above all a structuring tool for social dialogue. Too often it is treated as an administrative chore: a heavy spreadsheet to produce, one that fails to reflect the reality of the business and serves neither employee representatives nor management.
GBA Connect designs and deploys a BDESE that meets the legal obligation, feeds social dialogue, and remains maintainable over time - tailored to your size, your sector, and your level of social maturity.
Who this offer is for
- You are setting up your first BDESE and need a structure suited to your organisation
- Your existing BDESE is unwieldy, hard to read, poorly maintained, and you want to rebuild it
- You are integrating the environmental dimension (the "E" in BDESE) and have no methodology to do so
- You are changing your HRIS/Payroll system and want to automate the BDESE feed from your source data
What we deliver
- Audit of your current BDESE or of your target obligation: compliance, readability, actual usefulness
- Framework design: adaptation to headcount (below or above 300 employees), sector, company agreements, and the maturity of social dialogue
- Integration of the environmental component: indicators suited to your activity, data sources, collection methodology
- Population methodology: extractions from HRIS/payroll, finance, and CSR systems; automation of data flows where possible
- Update procedure: calendar, responsibilities, consistency checks, validation before publication
- Training for contributors and employee representatives: understanding the framework, reading the data, using it in consultation processes
Client testimonials
"Beyond regulatory compliance, we needed a clear organisation around the BDESE. GBA Connect defined each contributor's role, set up an input schedule, validation workflows and distribution rules tailored to Works Council consultations. The BDESE became a genuine steering tool, no longer just a regulatory obligation."
- HR Director, multi-site industrial mid-size company - assignment carried out by the founding partners prior to the creation of GBA Connect
Success indicators
- BDESE compliant with applicable legal and collective agreement obligations
- Readability validated by both employee representatives and management
- Update time cut in half through automated extractions
- Effective use in Works Council (CSE) consultations (strategic direction, economic situation, social policy)
Format & duration
A scoped assignment, typically 6 to 12 weeks depending on company size and the depth of the rebuild. Fixed fee.
Further reading
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