Sex Jokes: How to Create a Hostile Work Environment
A study finds that 34 percent of U.S. employees have seen or heard co-workers making sexually inappropriate remarks.
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About one-third of all employees in America hear sexually inappropriate comments
at work, according to Novations Group, a Boston-based consulting firm. Sex
jokes and the like are the “most frequent type of ridicule” endured by
employees, heard by 44 percent of men. By comparison, only 22 percent of women
say they have heard such lewd remarks. Close behind the sexual gibes are insults
based on a person’s race or ethnicity. Strikingly, 6 percent have witnessed workplace jerks [link to John’s jerks
column] ridiculing people with disabilities.
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