An employee knows something is wrong. They’ve seen the signs. Maybe they’ve quietly weighed the risks for weeks. The question isn’t whether your organization has a hotline. It’s whether employees trust it enough to use it.
That question is at the heart of World Whistleblower Day. For compliance leaders, the challenge isn’t simply encouraging employees to report concerns. It’s building the kind of trust that makes reporting feel worth the risk.
(Editor’s Note: World Whistleblower Day is Tuesday, June 23.)
The latest NAVEX Hotline and Incident Management Benchmark Report offers a meaningful signal about where employee confidence is heading. Across more than 4,000 organizations covering 77 million employees, 2.37 million reports were analyzed. The findings show reporting volumes reached record levels again in 2025.
Since 2020, overall report volumes have increased 27 percent. That’s not noise. That’s a structural shift in how employees relate to their organizations. Among organizations that track reports from all channels, not just hotlines and web submissions, reports requiring review, resources, and management attention have risen 40 percent in the same period. This is especially notable because during times of economic uncertainty, we typically see reporting levels decline.
At first glance, higher volumes might suggest growing misconduct. More often, they reflect something more positive: employees believe their concerns are...
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