Would it be okay to appoint a fellow HR staff member to handle the harassment report investigation?

A report of workplace harassment has been filed, and I am struggling to decide who should handle the investigation.

Since the company is not large, we are in a situation where we have to decide on the person in charge from within the HR team.

The problem is that both the complainant and the accused were employees who knew each other to some extent, so I was unsure if it was okay for a fellow HR team member to handle the investigation.

We aren't super close, but since we've worked together at the same company and seen each other's faces constantly, I don't think it would be easy to be completely objective.

However, realistically, appointing an external labor attorney or investigator for every single report entails financial and scheduling burdens.

In other companies, when a harassment report is filed, do the internal HR team usually appoint the investigator?

I am curious whether you tend to outsource investigations if you know the complainant or the accused to some extent, or if you only hand them over externally when there is a clear conflict of interest.

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    ๋˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž์™€ ์ตœ์ข… ์กฐ์น˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ž๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ 1์ธ ํŒ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๋๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ธ์‚ฌ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋‚˜ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    
    ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹ ๊ณ  ๊ฑด์„ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋„˜๊ธธ ํ•„์š”๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ธ์‚ฌํŒ€ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋˜, ์นœ๋ถ„ยท์ƒํ•˜๊ด€๊ณ„ยท๊ธฐ์กด ์ƒ๋‹ด ์ด๋ ฅยท์กฐ์ง ๋‚ด ์••๋ ฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์€ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฌด๋‚œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.