More than half of U.S. employees surveyed said they know a woman who has been sexually harassed at work, and half also admitted they'd never spoken up after hearing a colleague make an inappropriate comment about a person of the opposite sex. - CNBC
Despite growing conversation around workplace harassment, thanks to the #MeToo movement and high-profile cases of powerful executives, like Harvey Weinstein, using their position to gain sexual favors, workers still aren't sure what they're supposed to do when they encounter harassment in their own workplaces.
The data shows workers are not as concerned about these issues as we might expect to them to be, despite serious discussions around gender happening in the #MeToo era, Audra Jenkins, chief diversity and inclusion officer for Randstad North America, told CNBC Make It. Almost half, 46 percent, of men told Randstad they no longer know what compliments are ok to give a coworker, because they fear the remark could be potentially misinterpreted as sexual harassment. The same percentage of men also admitted they hold negative views of feminism and the #MeToo movement.
Younger staff are also more likely to find it difficult to work under and take direction from a boss of the opposite sex — almost 40 percent said this compared to only 22 percent of all workers. More than a third of 18- to 34-year-old employees said they'd experienced this, compared to 29 percent of women and 20 percent of men overall.
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