Executive Summary -

NAVEX Global, the world’s largest provider of workplace ethics and compliance solutions, conducted a survey of 500+ ethics and compliance business professionals to identify trends in broader workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation. As some of the most pervasive, people driven risks facing employers today, prevention measures are also evolving to tackle these core compliance issues.

Key learnings from the Workplace Harassment Benchmark Survey are placed in context with broader industry and NAVEX Global research to arrive at the following important trends to watch:

1. Beyond a myopic focus on sexual harassment, retaliation continues to be a pressing risk for employers

2. Employers are not properly prepared to handle risks associated with employee use of social media

3. Employers are rethinking harassment in general, the most common compliance risk

4. Global and generational viewpoints will be important to tackle moving forward...