Why leaders can’t see workplace harassment

As a leader in your company, harassers are probably nice to you. So how can you tackle something you can’t see?

Two years ago, I wrote a piece for LeadDev called, ‘Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you’. In it, I described something surprising I’d found: as I got more senior in my career and gained more power, harassment and bullying – which I used to be subject to all the time – seemed to evaporate.

This wasn’t, I realized, because people weren’t being abusive anymore. Instead, it was because harassers target people at work who have less power.

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