The workplace is where employees come together to carry out tasks and fulfil their role, however, sadly it seems that some working environments are rife with sexual harassment.
So much so that in 2018 40% of women and 18% of men revealed that they had experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in the workplace, according to Government research.
It seems that one organisation has also recently discovered how common sexual harassment can be. After commissioning its own survey to investigate its culture, Lloyd’s of London has revealed that nearly one in ten workers have witnessed unwelcome sexual advances and harassment in the past year, the Independent reported.
John Neal, Chief Executive of Lloyd’s, said that the findings from the poll of more than 6,000 staff were far worse than he anticipated and laid bare the scale of the toxicity within the 333-year-old insurance market, which had ‘far too long gone unspoken’.
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