HR Acuity

“Not a priority right now.” That’s what we sometimes hear from organizations… right before a headline, a hotline spike or a subpoena lands. If you’re betting on “later,” you’re betting on luck, not leadership. Here’s a quick self-check, and be honest: ☐ Cases live in spreadsheets or inboxes ☐ Anonymous reports sit in a different tool ☐ You can’t answer “who knew what, when?” in <5 minutes ☐ Approvals + audit trail are manual ☐ Manager notes live on sticky notes/DMs If you checked 3+, ER is already a priority, you’re just under-resourced. Reframe the stack rank: - First-order risk beats nice-to-haves. Retaliation, repeat offenders, discovery-readiness. - Dollarize delay. Every manual handoff = hours burned, trust eroded, outcomes delayed. - Start where you stand. Map your workflows, plug into your HRIS/SSO, unify intake, then add automation. - Win in 30 to 60 days. One intake, one system of record, one truth in front of Legal, HR and leadership. HR Acuity helps teams move from “we’ll get to it” to “we’ve got it,” without rip-and-replace. #EmployeeRelations #HRTech #RiskManagement #Compliance #HRIS

This Week in Employee Relations: November 9-13, 2025 Big news at HR Acuity this week. We marked a decade of Employee Relations Roundtables, celebrated the leaders who built this community, and set the stage for the next chapter of shared metrics, case rigor, and real-world learning. The headlines echo the same theme: credibility comes from consistent practice backed by #data. 🎉 HR Acuity Marks a Decade of ER Leadership Roundtables HR Acuity wrapped its 2025 Employee Relations Roundtable in Boston, honoring #ER leaders and spotlighting how the community has grown into a go-to forum for real case sharing, common metrics and consistent practice alongside empowER™ and the annual Benchmark Study. ➤ ER Insight: Keep your ER playbook living. Codify timelines, aftercare and metrics now, then use peer forums to pressure test them. Consistency is not a slogan; it is a system. 👀 Gen Z Is Not Buying the Everything Is Great Narrative A new summary of TriNet’s State of the Workplace finds overall satisfaction rising, but #GenZ reports the lowest work-life balance satisfaction and gaps between employer and employee perceptions on engagement, empowerment and privacy. ➤ ER Insight: Read the deltas, not the averages. Add age cohort cuts to ER dashboards and watch for early signals like follow-through concerns, privacy and time to resolution so you fix friction before it becomes fallout. 💼 On Highly Supportive Teams, Mistakes Can Sting More HR Dive highlights research suggesting status losses, like a missed promotion or public mistake, may feel worse on highly supportive teams, increasing ambivalence and anxiety unless managers intervene proactively. ➤ ER Insight: Do not leave support to chance after tough moments. Build a standard after-action protocol, manager outreach within 24 hours, role clarity and check-ins at two and six weeks to protect engagement and trust. 🤖 AI Is Writing Performance Reviews, Useful but Risky Companies are experimenting with AI to draft year-end reviews and summaries. The promise is efficiency, the risk is tone, bias and context loss if you do not set guardrails. ➤ ER Insight: If AI touches reviews, document purpose, inputs and human oversight. Require #managers to own the narrative, run bias checks and log decisions in your employee relations system. Tools help, accountability stays human.