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What Employees, Employers and Job Hunters Should Look for When It Comes to Workplace Harassment Policies

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By Lydia Belanger

Several trends are converging, making it more important than ever for business leaders to establish policies to make their workplaces safer and more hospitable.

One is the proliferation of social media and online review sites, which make it easier for job candidates to have a clearer sense of what it’s like to work at a company as early as the recruitment stage. Another is generational, in the fact that people ages 18 to 35, on average, are less likely to silently endure mistreatment, bullying or harassment.

“They’re so vocal, and they’re willing to walk,” says Rachel Bitte, chief people officer at recruiting software company Jobvite.

The #MeToo movement is the ultimate manifestation of this shift, but the data bear it out as well.
Jobvite recently partnered with Zogby Analytics to conduct an extensive survey about harassment and bullying at work. Overall, 9 percent of American workers reported having experienced sexual harassment at work in the past two years, while 67 percent of that group reported the incidents to their HR departments.

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