[Verse 1] Every year the training comes around again Sexual harassment, safety, and some EEO Click through slides while checking email on the side Wonder if this box-checking helps us grow Data privacy, ethics, workplace violence too Manager training for the leadership crew But here's the question we should really ask Does compliance theater help us do the task? [Chorus] Mandatory training, check the box today OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way But if it's just compliance theater on display Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away Evidence-based design is what we need Not just defensibility, but change indeed Mandatory training done the proper way Makes workplaces better every single day [Verse 2] Sexual harassment training, state-mandated law Anti-discrimination, EEO for all Workplace safety standards, OSHA general plus Industry-specific rules that cover all of us Code of conduct, ethics, set the standard high Diversity and inclusion, reaching for the sky But employees rolling eyes and clicking through Means the training's failing what it's meant to do [Chorus] Mandatory training, check the box today OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way But if it's just compliance theater on display Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away Evidence-based design is what we need Not just defensibility, but change indeed Mandatory training done the proper way Makes workplaces better every single day [Bridge] HR professionals, here's your call to action Push back on programs lacking interaction Reasonable accommodation, FMLA rules Performance documentation, management tools Don't accept the minimum legal defense Make training meaningful, not just pretense Information security, data privacy care Quality over quantity, show that you care [Chorus] Mandatory training, check the box today OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way But if it's just compliance theater on display Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away Evidence-based design is what we need Not just defensibility, but change indeed Mandatory training done the proper way Makes workplaces better every single day [Outro] From harassment prevention to workplace safety Design with purpose, not just regulatory Mandatory training with integrity Builds the culture that we want to see
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