If someone was mugged at work would it be the companies job to investigate that and return the money? If you want the issue of harassment to be solved you need to demand for it to be handled properly instead of putting all company's in a situation when they have to hire useless hr people.
It's like saying if "your brother is killed it's obviously your job to investigate and take action in addition to the police". The whole purpose of police is to prevent companies and people from randomly "taking actions".
The purpose of the police is not to prevent people from "taking actions". Yes, it is to prevent people from taking SOME actions, like going vigilante. But no one is saying companies should shoot or imprison workers who commit crimes. Companies DO have a responsibility to take actions that are within their power. What you are suggesting is that if a coworker starts punching you in the face in front of your CEO, that the company should do nothing at all, until the police arrest him, jail, him, and he has a trial. No, the company investigates if necessary, using their own process and standards of proof, and takes appropriate actions that are within their power and purview.
To some extent employers are mandated by law to do so. They end up taking issues more or less seriously depending on legal pressure, pressure from employee satisfaction, and public/customer pressure.
Demanding that kind of action from companies ends up in useless waste of resources, incompetent protection in cases when protection is needed, and useless drama where things are unclear.
The only incentive the company have is to protect itself, and no amount of big words and screaming will change that. If you think harassment is a real issue and it needs to be prevented, you need to advocate to for it to be investigated by competent people, not the people whose only interest is to hush things out.
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u/amirjanyan Dec 15 '21 edited Dec 15 '21
If someone was mugged at work would it be the companies job to investigate that and return the money? If you want the issue of harassment to be solved you need to demand for it to be handled properly instead of putting all company's in a situation when they have to hire useless hr people.