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A new MeetingsNet survey highlights just how pervasive sexual harassment is in the meetings industry and the workplace—and crowdsources ideas on how to combat it.
Fifty-six percent of female meeting executives say they’ve been sexually harassed in a professional environment. This and more from MeetingsNet’s new survey on harassment in the meetings industry and the workplace.
It’s not enough to just have a sexual harassment policy or meeting code of conduct if it isn’t enforced or doesn’t have any real consequences for the harasser. But creating one—or ensuring your existing policy has real teeth—is a good place to...
Respondents to MeetingsNet’s sexual harassment survey shared their ideas for reducing the potential for sexual harassment at meetings and in the workplace.