Before and after: Why your sexual harassment training should look different post-pandemic

Published Updated 3 Min Read

Workplace harassment didn’t stop when the office went virtual. Instead, it adapted, which is why employers’ training strategies should, too.

More than one in four employees say they have experienced unwelcome sexual behavior online since the start of COVID-19, whether via Zoom or Google Hangouts, text message, email or internal chat programs, according to a survey conducted by global learning tech company Epignosis and non-profit The Purple Campaign. Despite a quickly changing workforce, the discrepancies surrounding sexual harassment between men and women remain the same.

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


For reprint and licensing requests for this article, click here.


More From Employee Benefit News

Sign Up Form

Login Modal Form