Every year, organizations spend millions of dollars to develop training programs related to compliance issues such as antibribery training, codes of conduct, and ethics training. According to DLA Piper's 2016 Compliance Risk Report, about 88 percent of organizations require employees to undergo some sort of compliance training; however, the organization also found that less than half of those companies don’t do anything should employees fail to complete the training program. “I was surprised by the finding,” shared Brett Ingerman, a partner at DLA Piper and co-chair of global governance and compliance practice for the firm. “If you are going to go through the effort and expense of delivering the training and not track and follow up on those employees who don’t complete it, it seems kind of pointless.” Ingerman says there are several consequences to this attitude around compliance training. For one, he says, it sends a bad message. “The message is compliance isn’t all that important, this training wasn’t all that important, and we really don’t care that you act in compliance and ethically in the business that you conduct on behalf of the company.”