75% of employees who witness misconduct never report it. Not because they do not care — because your reporting channel is too slow, too traceable, and too easy to ignore. VoiceZero makes reporting as easy as leaving a voice message. Anonymous. AI-analyzed. Delivered to compliance in real time.
Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires every publicly traded company to maintain procedures for the anonymous submission of concerns regarding accounting, internal controls, or auditing matters. The EU Whistleblower Directive extends similar requirements across European operations. State-level equivalents apply to private companies of sufficient size.
The EEOC consistently uses evidence of reporting culture and reporting volume in assessing employer liability. A company that can show robust, frequent use of its ethics channel is in a fundamentally different position than a company that posts a hotline number in the employee handbook and never hears from it.
The Ethics & Compliance Initiative benchmarks show the average ethics hotline usage is 1.4 reports per 100 employees annually. That is not a reporting culture. That is a compliance checkbox.
1. Fear of retaliation. A NAVEX web form requires selecting a category, entering text, and creating a submission record. Every step feels like it could be traced. The anonymity is policy-level. It does not feel architectural.
2. Friction kills follow-through. The average NAVEX ethics report takes 10–15 minutes to complete. Most employees who intend to report abandon the process before submitting.
3. Distrust that anything will change. Employees who have watched previous complaints disappear into compliance black holes are not filing new ones.
The EEOC recovered $439.2 million for victims of workplace harassment and discrimination in fiscal year 2023. Workplace fraud costs US organizations an estimated 5% of revenue annually. The median loss per fraud case that went unreported for more than 18 months was $200,000 higher than cases reported in the first six months.
Voice-first. Truly anonymous. SOX-documented.
Break rooms, employee portals, onboarding materials, compliance training, bathroom stalls, and ID lanyards. The reporting channel is visible, accessible, and always on.
Employees speak. They do not fill out forms. AI transcription creates a written record automatically. Voice captures details that typed reports omit.
No login. No account creation. No device fingerprinting. The anonymity is structural, not a policy promise — which is what employees need to believe it.
Every report is automatically categorized (harassment, fraud, safety violation, discrimination, retaliation), sentiment-analyzed for urgency, and routed to the right compliance stakeholder.
Every report, routing action, and resolution is timestamped, logged, and exportable. When your auditors ask for evidence your hotline is operational, you hand them a dashboard.
NAVEX EthicsPoint: $667–$2,600+/month. VoiceZero: $199–$699/month. Same compliance coverage. Voice capability NAVEX does not offer. 15-minute deployment.
We had NAVEX for four years. In four years, we received eleven reports total across 1,200 employees. We switched to VoiceZero and received fourteen reports in the first thirty days. Same employees. Different channel.VP of Compliance, PE-backed manufacturing company
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The voice component surfaced details we never would have gotten from a form. One report flagged a manager who had been committing expense fraud for two years. Our internal audit found $340,000 in losses we would not have caught without it.Chief Compliance Officer, technology company
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Full feature set. SOX documentation. Voice reporting with AI triage.
Everything in starter, plus multi-department routing and compliance dashboard.
Enterprise features. SSO. Dedicated compliance support. Custom routing.
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Organizations with strong speak-up cultures catch fraud earlier, resolve harassment faster, and face lower EEOC and litigation exposure. The infrastructure for that culture costs $199/month.