From corporate culture to legal issues to the HR investigation process, we covered plenty of topics in 2018. Three of our blog articles rose above the others to receive the most engagement. Unsurprisingly, these three topics each have the potential to have a big impact on your company in the coming months and years. Three…
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Our Most Popular HR Investigation Related Blog Posts of 2018
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Is Your Company a Social Polluter?
Modern environmentalism was started by the book Silent Spring, which was published in 1962. This was eight years before the first Earth Day – we had lead in our paint and asbestos siding on our houses. Municipal recycling was decades away at this point, and West Virginian coal miners with black lung disease had not…
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How Meaningful Work Contributes to Your Company’s Profits
HR executives are more tuned in to the value of employee engagement than most anybody else at a company – how engaged workers are less likely to steal, negatively influence their coworkers and miss workdays. “Engaged” here is defined as employees who are “involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace”, according…
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Planning for an HR Crisis
Last weekend more than 17,000 Google employees across the globe walked out of Google offices in protest of an alleged sexual misconduct coverup the company facilitated for Andy Rubin, one of its top executives. According to the New York Times, Google determined that allegations of coerced sexual behavior against Rubin were credible. Their response was…
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The Real Goal of a Workplace Investigation
There are numerous reasons to build a skilled team of HR investigators at large companies. They reduce legal risk. They protect a company’s reputation and reduce employees’ likelihood to steal time and money from the company. They even protect the HR team from accusations of inattention or neglect. All of these reasons, however, can be…
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Avoid Idle Investigations in the Workplace
Workplace investigations have two competing requirements. Any investigation process must flexibility to follow the facts wherever they lead or the investigation won’t reach the best version of the truth. But without a predefined process, companies are likely to hold different people to different standards. Squaring this circle is part of the reason that all companies…
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Do Your Employees Feel Safe At Work?
A major study conducted last year found that nearly one in five US employees report receiving abuse and harassment at work, either from co-workers or customers. It’s most prevalent in young men without a college degree, with more than 35% reporting abuse, humiliation, unwanted sexual attention or bullying within the past month. If this behavior…
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What More Can You See Through Glassdoor?
Have you taken a look at your company’s Glassdoor reviews lately? If you’re in charge of handling HR investigations at your company, you’re probably heavily focused on internal data. What inappropriate behavior was reported to managers or the HR group? How was the case handled? Was it substantiated? Is the employee still with the company? …
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Getting Employees to Share When They Witness Misconduct
Have you ever been in a heavily attended, consequential meeting where it’s clear that people have questions, but nobody is willing to ask them? When the presenter gets to the end, they ask if there are any questions, and an uncomfortable feeling permeates the room. “Surely,” thinks the presenter, “someone has a question.” So they…
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Generational Communication Gaps in the Workplace
Whether you’re training a new employee in your department to take on HR investigations or interviewing an employee, it’s important to know how they communicate. People who were born after 1980 represent a significant portion of the workplace today and their communication preferences and capabilities are different than those of other generations. This is the…