LRN shared best practices in code of conduct design and implementation and employee feedback on the use and preferred engagement with their company code of conduct based on a worldwide survey. Survey results are reported by region with the US representing 20% of more than 2,000 survey participants across diverse industries, position levels, generations, genders, and work arrangements (in-office, hybrid, remote).
Among the key takeaways:
- Coverage of AI increased from 5% in 2023 to 15% this year, reflecting a significant increase in the risks associated with the use of AI (more so than any other tracked risk topic), while also highlighting the percentage of codes that have yet to catch up with emerging technologies.
- Overall, compared to 2023, codes showed increased prevalence of coverage across numerous key elements such as helpline details, links to policies, applicability to contractors, ethical decision-making models, CEO messages, explanations of consequences, and more.
- Based on numerous measures of engagement, on par with LRN’s 2024 report, employees in hybrid work arrangements engage with codes of conduct more—and more effectively—than remote or in-office employees.
In addition to informative code coverage statistics, codes are evaluated against LRN’s eight key dimensions of code effectiveness (page 28), which are illustrated by example (company name and relevant code text) toward the end of the report.