Many victims of workplace sexual harassment tell the same frustrating story: Their harasser got fired, but then he landed a plum new job in the same industry. In 2016 Reuters terminated a senior editor after his subordinate filed a sexual harassment complaint. Not long after, that editor was hired as an executive at Newsweek. In 2012 the Red Cross asked an official to resign after it investigated allegations that he had raped one of his subordinates and sexually harassed another. Nonetheless, that official received “very positive references” and went on to a top job at another nonprofit, Save the Children. After these stories hit the news in the wake of the #MeToo movement, both accused harassers lost their new jobs.
Read the full article by Jessica A. Clarke on The Harvard Business Review.