More whistleblowers than ever before filed reports with their employers in 2022, with more than half doing so anonymously, according to the latest hotline benchmark report from NAVEX.
The “2023 Hotline & Incident Management Benchmark Report,” released Tuesday, analyzed whistleblowing trends among 52 million employees across 3,430 organizations that received 10 or more reports in 2022—a database of 1.52 million reports from across the globe.
The rise in total reports, which included the highest observed median level of reports per 100 employees (1.47), showed increasing numbers of employees knew about and used their companies’ internal reporting platforms.
But size of the company mattered in hotline use, according to the report. Businesses with fewer than 2,500 employees received 2.99 reports per 100 employees in 2022, while mid-sized companies (2,500-49,999 employees) had less than 1 report per 100 employees. Large firms (more than 100,000 employees) had 1.2 reports per 100 employees.
A total of 56 percent of reports were anonymous in 2022, up from 50 percent in 2021, the report said. In 2020, 58 percent of reports were anonymous.
The rise in the total number of reports filed, paired with the increased percentage of anonymous reports, “suggest a more cautious workforce in a period of greater economic uncertainty,” the report said.
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