Discussion, business, communication

The statistics are staggering: "More than 50 percent of all employees have already experienced sexual assaults at work." (eqs.com 2020)

Sexual harassment can happen between any two employees, although historically women have been the most frequent victims.

Aside from the psychological damage harassment causes to victims, businesses suffer too. Many studies have found (Links to an external site.) that experiencing harassment drives women [and others] to leave their jobs, taking their ideas, connections, and potential with them. This leads to a costly need to hire and train new employees. There is also evidence (Links to an external site.) that harassment can hurt the cohesion and functioning of teams. Companies stand to lose valuable employees if they don’t work to eliminate sexual harassment. (eqs.com 2020)

Businesses also suffer if they are held liable.  An employer will only have a defense if they can show they took reasonable steps to prevent the harassment. (eqs.com 2020)

As a future business leader, "Ensure that employees know about and have access to confidential reporting channels through they can report cases of sexual harassment. Have an anti-harassment policy and ensure all employees sign up to it. Make training on preventing sexual harassment mandatory for all employees. Don’t wait for employee reports to find out the extent of the problem in your company. Be proactive and add questions in your annual employee engagement survey to find out whether staff have ever been victims of harassment or seen it happening to someone else. If they have, find out if they ever reported it and if not, why not. This allows you to determine the effectiveness of your company’s reporting program. (eqs.com 2020)

 Question: As a future business leader, what are you willing to commit to, to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace?

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