4 in 10 employees do not mind a colleague flirting with them: Codes of conduct at work after #MeToo

Tempo-Team has conducted a survey in 2018 with 2,050 workers and employers. The survey confirmed that almost half of all Belgian companies have set up a code of conduct.

According to the Tempo-Team, « since the #MeToo campaign, twice as many companies are re-framing ‘out of place’ behavior at work ».

A similar survey in 2016 showed that only one fourth of companies had a code of conduct which would determine what tolerable behavior in the workplace means.

According to the survey results, four out of ten companies are taking measures today in order to « define more clearly the limits of inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment ».

However, there is still a lot of room for improvement as one out of two workers does not really know whether his/her company allows closer relationships between colleagues.

 

 

About 4 in 10 employees stated that they do not mind a colleague flirting with them, and 1 in 4 admit to having already flirted with a colleague.

On the other hand, the percentage of those who categorically refuse this type of rapport at work has increased from 37% in 2016 to 45% in 2018.