Further, many employees believe different, more casual rules apply to their conduct during virtual meetings when working from home. According to surveys, nearly 40 percent of employees report masturbating in the workplace and #MeToobin began trending on Twitter with women speaking out about similar experiences. He didn’t apologize for masturbating during a work call with female colleagues.Īn isolated problem? Hardly. He weakly apologized, saying he hadn’t realized he’d not shut off his video feed. In what many call the “coming out party” of digital harassment, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exposed his genitals to coworkers on Zoom. The pandemic and increased use of videoconferencing and social media platforms have created new harassment forms, including Zoom bombing, dogpiling and doxing.
adults have experienced online harassment, with 20% harassed online for their political views and 25% experiencing more severe harassment including physical threats and stalking. According to Pew research, 41 percent of U.S. Rumors, threats, insults, cyberbullying, hate speech and other forms of harassment have thrived during the pandemic. Out-of-date harassment policies may inadequately protect employees or employers whose employees launch attacks against others using employer-owned equipment. Multiple federal and state laws, including the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Alaska Human Rights Law, require employers to protect employees from workplace harassment regardless of where they work. If you supervise employees working remotely and haven’t yet updated your harassment policy, it’s time, given the resurgence of political, racial and vaccine-related hate speech.
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