True Office Learning Blog

The jaw-dropping data breaches of the past decade—Equifax, First American, and Yahoo, to name a few—would seemingly have numbed the business world’s consciousness to such massive incidents. But then, something happens that puts IT departments and compliance professionals back on edge …

Workplace harassment has always been a serious issue facing companies that want to build a safe environment so employees can earn a living without feeling threatened or ashamed. And increasingly, employees are demanding that safe environment.

True Office Learning just hit a major milestone in our quest to reinvent compliance analytics: We’ve crossed the 1 billion mark of compliance data points in our I.Q. Analytics engine. That’s a big deal for businesses, but if you’re not familiar with advanced data, you might not fully understand how powerful the figure truly is.

The question asks for a simple yes/no answer: “In situations of potential harassment, does the intent behind the behavior matter?”

The correct answer to this question, which appears in a True Office Learning module, is no. Of the millions of users who’ve answered it, only 64 percent got it right, meaning more than a third of employees incorrectly think harassment might be OK depending on the circumstance.

Many companies provide compliance training because it’s mandatory, but are they really excelling at it? 

Organizations may be content to merely fulfill compliance training requirements that meet laws and guidelines, or perhaps they offer basic learning and believe that’s enough—or all that’s available—for employees to make good compliance decisions. Too often, these businesses find themselves burned by noncompliant employees ...