Hi there,

This is your monthly roundup of Spot product updates and DEI-related content.

Coming Soon from Spot

  • Not Alone feature: Employees can choose to co-report, so their report only gets submitted if another employee who opts in to the feature names the same individual. If you’re interested in activating this feature when it’s available, please reach out. 
  • Bystander intervention training will be available soon! Please let us know if you’re interested in this 1-hour training. (If you have employees in Chicago, Illinois, this training may be required.)

This Bears Repeating 

  • Free HR Resources page: Our new webpage features a variety of workplace culture resources.
  • Ask a Benefits or Coverage Question, a new post-Roe interview, is free to any Spot reporting customer who wants it. Go to Settings > Case management settings in your dashboard to turn on this interview. If you don’t have these settings, email us at hello@talktospot.com and we’ll upgrade your dashboard.
  • On-demand HR coaching: Spot subscribers can get on-demand, hourly coaching with experts from HRuprise! Contact us to discuss the discounted rate and booking process.

In the Spotlight

Spot is available for free to film and TV workers in the UK, thanks to the generosity of The Film and TV Charity.

Links Roundup

Maybe it does work? There’s plenty of research out there that shows that harassment prevention training doesn’t “work.”

However, our friends over at The Purple Campaign recently released a report that links addressing workplace harassment to retaining top talent. The report finds, “After completing anti-sexual harassment training, 71% of employees felt more likely to stay with their company, 71% of employees felt more valued as an individual in the company, and 61% of employees felt more productive in their role.” (Spot Blog, The Purple Campaign)

1.6 million more: Post-Roe, the U.S. has seen employer expansion of abortion coverage: 35% of employers now offer abortion travel and lodging benefits, and that number is likely to double. According to LeanIn.Org, “most employees under age 40, regardless of their political affiliation, want to work for a company that supports access to abortion.”

Following a wave of corporate expansions of such benefits by JPMorgan Chase, Amazon, and others, Walmart now covers abortions and, if necessary, travel for employees who need that care. Walmart, the U.S.’s largest private employer with about 1.6 million workers, is based in Arkansas, a state “with a so-called trigger law designed to limit abortion access immediately upon the overturning of Roe v Wade. The state bans all abortions except those permitted to save the life of a mother.” (SHRM, LeanIn.Org, CNBC)

No surprises here: Age discrimination is apparently rampant; according to a 2018 U.S. poll, 61% of workers 45 or older said that they had experienced or witnessed it.

Gender and race are big factors: “In one study using fictitious resumes, researchers found that discrimination is more severe and starts much earlier for older women than for older men. In the AARP poll, disproportionately high percentages of women and Black workers (64% and 75% respectively) reported witnessing or experiencing age discrimination.” (The Washington Post)