Andrea Brunet, Director, Employee Relations at Greystar

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Human-First Employee Relations: Greystar’s Director on Multi-State Investigations, AI, and Trust Summary How do you lead fair, fast, and human investigations across dozens of jurisdictions—with California in the mix—and still keep people at the center? Andrea Brunet, Director of Employee Relations at Greystar, supports 2,400 employees across multiple states for the global real estate leader. She shares how rigorous organization, clear triage, and deep partnership with field leaders power compliant, compassionate employee relations. Andrea explains her system for managing time-sensitive cases (think EEOC and wage-and-hour), why rapport lets HR deliver risk-based guidance leaders can hear, and how to handle AI-authored complaints without losing the human story.