Brightmine vs. SHRM

Brightmine is well suited for UK employment law guidance, policy interpretation, and complex employee relations scenarios requiring quick, reliable insight. It is less appropriate for country specific advice outside the UK or for highly bespoke legal matters that require formal external legal counsel. In these cases you would still require external legal counsel.

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This is for legal research and updates on articles related to the HR world and employee relations issues.

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• Legal updates - keeping up with constant changes.
• Great letter and other document templates.
• Useful and well formatted Policy Templates - helping us keep up with changes to legislation.
• Handy dashboard with trending topics, updated & last viewed items.
• Daily newsletter updates are very useful for keeping up with current issues and changes to policies.

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• Legal research and statute research.
• New case law and legislation updates.
• HR guidance and best practices.

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• I'm not sure that their legal advice line is as effective as it could be, it would be better to have an assigned one or two professionals to an account. We actually removed the advice line on last renewal.
• The wording in policies and especially templates can feel cold and very formal.
• Their pricing feels quite high for the library.

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• Interface could be more user friendly for research purposes.
• Cost could be a little less.

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Without realising it we use Brightmine so often and it is so beneficial as our daily roles are onerous. By having a tool there that covers such a wide variety of products we can rest assured we know if we need something we can find it on there easily. With no hassle.

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So simple to use and really a few clicks to finding what you need, also appreciate the layout and alphabetical organisation. Not to mention how things are written out it makes finding templates a breeze and navigating to exactly what you need. Makes a stressful job so much easier!

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It is a very good product and my only issue is the price could be a little less and better research options for local employment or wage/hour laws at the city or county level.

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It is almost always available when I need it. I have only ran into 2 situations where I received an error message and could not get logged in but was told this was a widespread issue that would quickly be resolved.

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Everything loads quickly and is exactly where I need it to be. I like how the sidebar breaks down different sections of policies for each state to help me find what I am looking for or gives suggestions or documents to review that may also be helpful

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I reached out to Brightmine support when i could not get logged in and I received a personal response within hours that was very helpful! I love that it was a real person and not automated. This type of support makes me feel that their support team truly cares about getting issues fixed timely.

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The people on the call training us were very friendly and knowledgeable! They helped me learn of new tabs for finding templates to create new trainings to update departments on policies and procedures. It also has great excel sheets so I can see side by side differences between states regarding different laws and compensation changes.

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I didnt implement but just wanted to say the person providing the training was brilliant and guided us through each page so we knew how to navigate, also allowed us to ask a lot of questions if we needed to which was helpful. So we could go away with confidence to use it

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We like Brightmine because they are a global company and offers the most information for the countries where we have employees. Having a one-stop shop for all things compliance for all countries is essentially huge for us. As we grow, we know Brightmine will still be our go-to source.

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WE only use it in HR but, I have no doubt that it could be scaled across other sites / teams.

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• Reduced legal expenditures -- I didn't have to pay lawyers to make a handbook for me.
• First point of reference for legal questions
• Reduces our risk and ensures we make the right legal decisions.
• Easy to research and find content using the search function of the home page dashboard.

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• Has assisted me with research for prep calls with my clients.
• Has allowed me to stay on top of new developments.

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