Your Employees Are Filing the Cases. Is Your Speak-Up Process Ready?
Employees have more places than ever to raise a concern outside the company, from regulators to social media. What that means for your investigations program, and what the culture data says about who actually reports to you.
Whistleblowers filed 1,297 False Claims Act suits in FY2025, a record and 32% above the previous high. Insiders now generate more than three-quarters of new FCA matters, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s new whistleblower awards pilot has already taken in more than 1,100 tips. The people filing those cases work for someone. The question for 2027 is whether they tried to tell you first.
This session pairs Ethisphere’s program advisory and culture teams to look at both sides of that question. On the program side: what the World’s Most Ethical Companies have built, including the 98% that run root cause analysis on investigations and the 70% that check whether an employee facing termination previously reported misconduct. On the culture side: why employees are more than twice as likely to raise a concern with a manager than through a hotline, and what that means for how you train, measure, and escalate.
We’ll close with where AI is already inside the process, from employees drafting hotline reports with it to teams using it to triage. You’ll leave with a short list of what to review before year-end planning locks.
Attendees will leave with:
- The FY2025 enforcement numbers to put in front of your General Counsel and board
- A checklist for reviewing investigations and speak-up process against the 2026 Honoree benchmark
- The culture data on where concerns go first, and how to make managers the strongest link
- A view of AI’s role on both ends of the hotline, and the controls Honorees are putting in place
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Your Employees Are Filing the Cases. Is Your Speak-Up Process Ready?
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