Hotline Benchmark Report Shows Improvements
A new report from NAVEX Global says the “substantiation rates” for employee hotline calls—that is, the number of complaints found to be worth investigating—more than doubled from 12 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2014. “This significant increase may be a sign that ethics and compliance program leaders are ...
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