How to handle compliance maintenance without stalling IT projects
Compliance maintenance consumes up to 80 percent of IT staff time, leaving small teams unable to work on daily support and technical projects. Spending years achieving certification often leads to a situation where ongoing maintenance crowds out the rest of the job entirely.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using compliance automation and management software like Futurefeed to streamline documentation
- 2Punting core IT projects and improvements
- 3Quitting and looking for a new job
- 4Convincing leadership to hire a dedicated compliance team
- 5Finding out about incidents manually by word of mouth or by actively searching systems
- 6Gathering fragmented data from multiple software systems and payroll manually by hand
- 7Accepting the risk of missing deadlines
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“At this point, it feels like 80% of my time goes toward compliance.”source ↗
“Those projects keep getting pushed back because compliance and daily support consume nearly all my time.”source ↗
“It’s frustrating to spend two years getting certified, only to realize that maintaining it leaves almost no room for the rest of your job.”source ↗
“We have two business days to report a workplace injury to WCB here. Two. The clock starts when the employer becomes aware, and "the employer" in practice means whichever supervisor was standing there.”source ↗
“What doesn't exist is anything telling me they happened. No route from "supervisor logged it Thursday" to "the person who files has been told."”source ↗
“One report needs three sources: Personal details out of Avanti. Incident details out of ProSafe. SIN, six-week average hours and rate of pay out of payroll, which means asking someone else and waiting. Then it goes over by hand.”source ↗
“I'm the only person here who knows any of this. Nobody else has portal access, nobody else has filed one. If I'm off for a month, or I leave, the two-day clock still runs and there is no one to hear it.”source ↗
“I’m in the exact same boat as you. 3 person team and we just got level 2 in May. It’s been a shit show and that train isn’t stopping anytime soon.”source ↗
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