Imagine you’re a finance person starting a new job. On the first day, your boss asks: what do you use to track the financial health of the company? Deb Muller notes that you’d mention a P&L, a balance sheet, a cash flow statement. Easy. Now ask that same question about the health of the workforce.
You’d get a very different answer.
Deb has been sitting with that gap for more than two decades. She’s the founder and CEO of HR Acuity, the platform built specifically for employee relations and investigation management — and the person behind the 10th Annual Employee Relations Benchmark Study, which just dropped. Misconduct and retaliation claims hit an all-time high in 2025. Case complexity is rising faster than staffing can absorb it. And AI is arriving before the foundational infrastructure to use it well exists.
This conversation is about how to fix that practically, not theoretically.
Listen here.
