Office Culture

The Sunlight in Workplace Harassment Act seeks to force companies to report the “total number” and the “total dollar amount” of settlements they make related to sexual harassment. Read More

A recent NPR/Ipsos poll reveals the “inappropriate” things that people say they’ve witnessed or admitted to doing on the job. Read More

If you feel uncomfortable telling your story of harassment at work to a human, a new chatbot called Spot has a solution free from the bureaucracy of human resources. Read More

A staggering 81% of American workers report either having seen a colleague get bullied “in person” or having faced it themselves. Read More

A recent survey from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., found that 62% of HR leaders said their employer has had to manage “a romantic relationship” that was unsuccessful or “inappropriate” in the office. Of those, 33% led to at least one person involved getting fired. Read More

A new Wall Street Journal report found that at Facebook, dating employees is treated with a one-and-done strike policy: employees are only allowed to ask a co-worker out once. If the coworker is not interested, the other coworker must move on and cannot ask them out again. Read More

Since #MeToo and sexual harassment became a national conversation this fall, the survey found that male managers are more likely to treat their female subordinates at arms’ length. The survey found the male managers are three times more likely now to say they are uncomfortable mentoring women. Read More

Even after the #MeToo movement has made sexual workplace harassment a national conversation, there’s still a sharp divide between the number of incidents and what actually gets reported to Human Resources. Read More

A group of 22 senators sent a letter to the Department of Labor on Monday requesting that the department establish better, and more detailed, methods of collecting data on sexual harassment in the workplace. Read More