What is Harassment in the Workplace?
Workplace harassment is mostly defined as unwanted hostile behavior exhibited through physical, written or verbal conduct due to which the individual to whom this harassment has been targeted towards experiences anguish, and suffers mentally, emotionally, economically as well in some extreme cases even physically. Harassing or the inability to contain harassment is indicated as a form of employment discrimination. Harassment in the workplace constitutes a wide number of conduct, including intimidation, hostility, offensive jokes, name calling, racial slurs, threats, mockery, insults, physical assaults, the use of offensive objects, etc. Types of Harassment in the Workplace Harassment has very little to do with the gender of the harasser, though in more cases women are targeted, but the incidences of men being harassed by their female bosses or co-workers too are on the rise. Hence, harassment can occur between seniors, juniors or colleagues irrespective of gender and age. Denying an in
