Conducting Workplace Investigations Consistently and Fairly HRLS

🚨 It's Just a Complaint... Until It’s Not

Someone makes an offhand comment in the breakroom. Someone else reports it. You’re not sure if it’s serious, so you wait. Then someone else mentions it. Now you’re in it. Suddenly, everyone’s looking at you—and you're scrambling to remember if you documented that last conversation. (Did you?)

You've been here before:

• You’re second-guessing what questions you’re allowed to ask.

• You try to stay neutral, but one employee starts crying, another brings up a lawyer.

• Your “notes” from last week are... in your head.