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

Holiday microtraining

Holiday parties are back! Share Spot’s anti-harassment refresher with your organization prior to any planned celebrations. It’s quick, fun, and delivered entirely by the Spot team pups!

View the holiday microtraining

New from Spot

  • Two-way anonymous messaging: Spot has always offered multiple ways to communicate with anonymous reporters by sending custom email messages or clicking together a follow-up interview delivered via bot. Reporters can now respond to your email messages, enabling longer back-and-forth. Messages will appear as part of a report’s cumulative documentation in the dashboard.
  • Delete custom follow-up questions: By popular demand, you can now delete custom follow-up questions that you’ve added to the dashboard. Use the trashcan icon that appears in the same row as the question you want to delete.
  • Bystander training: You can still preview our new 1-hour bystander intervention training. *If you have employees in Chicago, Illinois, bystander training may be required for anti-harassment compliance.* 

Links Roundup

Check your LMS! Microsoft is adopting new sexual harassment policies following an external review prompted by misconduct reports. Among other measures, the software giant will “fix a tool that failed to adequately remind senior leadership to take required harassment training, and it will consider adding questions to a survey launched in March for workers on their experiences with the sexual harassment investigation process.” (The Seattle Times)

The truth hurts: “Quite a few of the most popular [diversity] trainings actually reduced the diversity of the companies [where] they’re deployed because they activate backlash among…managers from majority communities. Unconscious bias training actually makes things worse by activating people’s biases instead of eliminating them.” Read more from Lily Zheng about DE&I quality control and accountability. (HR Brew)

Millions out: Lest we forget, there’s always a misconduct settlement happening somewhere. CBS is shelling out $30.5 million after it was found that the network covered up allegations of sexual assault against its former president and CEO. Circle K is paying the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission $8 million for bias against pregnant and disabled employees. (SHRM, HR Dive)