Creating Standards to Prevent Bad Behavior at Events
Photo Credit: An opening reception for an event in Australia. Meeting planners are devising new methods to limit sexual harassment during events. Flickr / Engineers Australia
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It's an open secret that meetings and events are often rife with sexual harassment and other types of unsavory behavior. The industry wants to do more to create safer environments, but is only in the early stages of what will have to be a widespread cultural change.
Sexual harassment is a major societal problem, and the meetings industry is doing its part to create standards and rules for personal behavior among both event professionals and attendees.
This week we took a look at what the meetings industry is doing to create a safe environment. These represent the first steps in a necessary movement toward more inclusive and safer events.
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